[Haskell-cafe] strict, lazy, non-strict, eager

David Barbour dmbarbour at gmail.com
Mon Jan 16 20:51:29 CET 2012


Full beta-reduction is certainly not strict but also doesn't guarantee
terminate even where it is possible (i.e. it might indefinitely unfold a
value without making progress). I don't think there is much you can say
about non-strictness and termination.

Regards,

Dave

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk>wrote:

> Perhaps what I should have said to be almost as succinct but
> this time accurate is “non-strict semantics requires that the
> evaluation strategy terminate if there is any evaluation
> strategy that terminates”?
>
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