[Haskell-cafe] Re: If wishes were horses... (was: Re: definition of sum)

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Fri Mar 12 11:42:19 EST 2010


On Mar 12, 2010, at 06:01 , Johannes Waldmann wrote:
> in this case, something like:  Data.List.Strict.fold,  
> Data.List.Lazy.fold
>
> Or - if we had static overloading, and strictness info in the type,
> then we wouldn't need different names. Can of worms ...


Doesn't help if strictness needs to be controlled at use sites and not  
at the type level (which is the usual case).

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