Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Diagnosing stack overflow

On 8/17/07, apfelmus wrote:

Extracting the head and tail of ss with a let statement could lead to a huge unevaluated expression like

rest = tail (tail (tail (...)))

Even though they are probably forced, would breaking the head and tail apart via pattern-matching or a case statement avoid building up that unevaluated expression? Justin