[Haskell-cafe] Python is lazier than Haskell

[Gregg Reynolds]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Ben Lippmeier <benl at ouroborus.net> wrote:

>
> On 27/04/2011, at 7:30 PM, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>
> >  "If Haskell is great because of its laziness,
> >   then Python must be even greater,
> >   since it is lazy at the type level."
>
> Laziness at the value level causes space leaks, and laziness at the type
> level causes mind leaks. Neither are much fun.
>
> If the designers could find a way to support laziness at the programmer
level I for one would be very grateful.

-G
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