Proposal: strictify foldl'

[David Feuer]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Niklas Hambüchen <mail at nh2.me> wrote:

> On 03/11/14 18:16, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> > If 'seq' is faster than 'deepseq' it leaves things unevaluated and thus
> > builds up unevaluated expressions, right?
>
> Yes.
>

Not necessarily in a bad way. If I forcefully insert something at the end
of a lazy finger tree, say, that won't force the entire structure of the
tree, but it will force the root, which I believe is sufficient to prevent
unbroken thunk nests, and probably what you'd actually want.
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