Re: [Haskell-cafe] A probably-stupid question about a Prelude implementation.

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

no surprise - you got a lot of answers :) it is the best part of Haskell, after all :)

Only if you ask "easy" questions. ;-)

the secret Haskell weapon is lazy evaluation which makes *everything* short-circuited. just consider standard (&&) definition:

Again, only if you Do It Right(tm). But fortunately, that's not usually difficult... :-D