[Haskell-cafe] What's the deal with Clean?

brian briand at aracnet.com
Thu Nov 5 21:15:49 EST 2009


On Nov 5, 2009, at 8:26 AM, Jason Dagit wrote:

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>
> Haskell knows when I have a list of Doubles, you know, because it's  
> strongly typed.
>
> Then it proceeds to box them. Huh ?
>
> Imagine a computation which will yield a Double if evaluated, but  
> has not yet been evaluated.   How do you store that in the list?
>

So laziness is causing the boxing to be necessary ?




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