[Haskell] strictness of putChar: report incomplete?

Wolfgang Jeltsch wolfgang at jeltsch.net
Wed Oct 5 11:36:35 EDT 2005


Am Mittwoch, 5. Oktober 2005 16:22 schrieb Simon Marlow:
> [...]

> Basically anything for which the report doesn't give the full code, except
> of course primitives which usually must be strict.

Why must primitives be strict?  I wouldn't consider putChar undefined an 
undefined action.  In my opinion, the undefinedness should only come into 
play when putChar undefined is executed.

> [...]

Best wishes,
Wolfgang


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