Re: [cvs-nhc98] patch applied (nhc98): Prelude sum and product should really use foldl' not foldl.

2 Mar 2007


      Ian Lynagh  wrote:
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On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:58:56AM -0800, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
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Thu Mar  1 08:54:37 PST 2007  Malcolm.Wallace@cs.york.ac.uk
  * Prelude sum and product should really use foldl' not foldl.
Not according to the Haskell 98 report:
OK, you are the second person to complain within an hour of the checkin!
Maybe I should revert.  I was just trying to fix an egregious space leak
for the standard numeric types.  There are not too many genuinely lazy
numeric datatypes around.

Regards,
    Malcolm

Re: [cvs-nhc98] patch applied (nhc98): Prelude sum and product should really use foldl&apos; not foldl.

Malcolm Wallace

Re: [cvs-nhc98] patch applied (nhc98): Prelude sum and product should really use foldl' not foldl.