how strict is Array.array?

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Well, it's clearly a design choice.  But in general laziness does not
come for
free.  The choice made by the Haskell designers was that the 'array'
function
can consume and explore all its input before producing any result.   It
just
give more scope to the implementor.   Nothing too deep.

Simon

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| From: Johannes Waldmann [mailto:joe@isun.informatik.uni-leipzig.de]=20
| Sent: 12 November 2001 20:29
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| Subject: how strict is Array.array?
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| I was surprised to note that
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|     bounds $ array (0,1) undefined
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| is undefined ( rather than (0,1) ) - why is this?
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| just curious,
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