8 Jan
2016
8 Jan
'16
3:33 p.m.
On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 03:18:38PM -0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:
Though ML was the best of the strict bunch. Haskell's overloading and cleaner notation made for more perspicuous code. It also enabled elegant code like this for the exponential series:
exps = 1 + integral exps
As Oleg pointed out, this won't work in a strict language, and must be replaced with something much less vivid:
exps = fix (\s 1 + integral s)
Can you explain why the first line won't work for lazy lists in a strict language? It seems perfectly fine to me. Tom