[Haskell-cafe] different behaviours with or without putStrLn

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Corentin Dupont
<corentin.dupont at gmail.com>wrote:

> Basically, with the following code, I want the evaluation to really happen
> on the "evaluate".
> I found out that it doesn't: it is evaluated elsewhere (I don't know
> where).
> If I put a putStrLn (commented below), the evaluation really happens there.
>

`evaluate` only evaluates to the first constructor, I believe. `putStrLn`
must necessarily do full evaluation. Perhaps `deepseq` would help?

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