Export lists in modules
Lennart Augustsson
lennart at augustsson.net
Tue Feb 28 08:37:06 EST 2006
John Meacham wrote:
>
> I mean, even a for loop in haskell is done as
> mapM action [0..10]
>
> I'd say _most_ uses of lists are deforested away because they are used
> to express control and dataflow and arn't actually used as persistant
> structures.
Yes, they are optimized away when ghc actually works. :) At the moment
this seems to be broken (try length[1..n] in 6.4.1).
-- Lennart
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