Preventing space leaks without seq (was: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Some random newbie questions)

L.S., Olaf wrote:

I'm constantly surprised hearing from so many people about their space problems. I cannot remember having space problems with my programs. I don't know what everybody else is doing wrong I do disagree with people recommending strictness annotations (seq etc). In contrast, I make my programs as lazy as possible.

Can you give some rules and/or examples how you do this? Henk-Jan van Tuyl -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: https://secure.bmtmicro.com/opera/buy-opera.html?AID=789433