31 Jan
2012
31 Jan
'12
1:51 a.m.
On 31/01/2012, at 5:47 AM, Doug McIlroy wrote:
Is there any document describing why there is no ghc --strict flag making all code strict by default? Wouldn't such a '--strict' flag turn Haskell/GHC into a better C/gcc compiler?
I agree that a strict flag would turn Haskell into C--but that's a perversion of Haskell.
On the other hand, a designed-to-be-strict language-and-libraries with close-to-Haskell *syntax* would be nice. I recently described F# as combining the beauty of Caml with the functional purity of C# -- both of course are like the snakes of Ireland.