[Haskell-cafe] Haskell-cafe] Preventing sharing

[Tom Ellis]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 03:18:38PM -0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> Though ML was the best of the strict bunch. Haskell's overloading
> and cleaner notation made for more perspicuous code. It also
> enabled elegant code like this for the exponential series:
> 
> 	exps = 1 + integral exps
> 
> As Oleg pointed out, this won't work in a strict language, and
> must be replaced with something much less vivid:
> 
> 	exps = fix (\s 1 + integral s)

Can you explain why the first line won't work for lazy lists in a strict
language?  It seems perfectly fine to me.

Tom