[Haskell-cafe] About the lazy pattern

[Ketil Malde]

张旭 <stircrazynemo at hotmail.com> writes:

> Hi, I am really new to haskell. I am reading "A gentle instruction
> to haskell" now. And I just cannot understand the chapter below. Is
> there anybody who can gives me some hints about why the pattern
> matching for "client" is so early? How does the pattern matching
> works here?  

Reading this thread, it occurs to me that I've probably never used a
lazy pattern in my code.  So if you, in spite of the helpful replies
you've got, still have problems understanding lazy patterns, it may be
an option to simply skip this part of the tutorial for now.

(Not that I recommend learning Haskell half-way, mind you, but it did
work for me :-)

-k
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