[Haskell-cafe] ($) not as transparent as it seems

[Tim Chevalier]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Steffen Schuldenzucker
<sschuldenzucker at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
> Dear cafe,
>
> does anyone have an explanation for this?:
>
>>>> error (error "foo")
> *** Exception: foo
>
>>>> error $ error "foo"
> *** Exception: *** Exception: foo
>

Have you read the intermediate Core (using -ddump-simpl) for each variation?

Cheers,
Tim


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