[Haskell] Probably a trivial thing for people knowing Haskell

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Oct 19, at 2:07, Friedrich wrote:
> Howerver even if Strings are bad I can not see why they are hanging
> around so long. I open a file a read it line by line and I close the
> file so all read string are "garbage" and getting rid of them should
> not be that hard or should it?


If your code is too lazy, you have the whole file + the close  
operation hanging around in unevaluated thunks until you print the  
result and it all gets processed all at once.  Laziness is a double- 
edged sword.

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