bug in language definition (strictness)

Nils Anders Danielsson nad at Cs.Nott.AC.UK
Thu Aug 6 08:37:38 EDT 2009


On 2009-08-06 11:08, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> yet, because of the definition of $!, this applies the constructor to 
> its arguments right-to-left instead of the intuitive left-to-right.

I do not think that there is a bug: x `seq` y `seq` e has the same
denotation as y `seq` x `seq` e.

-- 
/NAD


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