On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 13:40, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin@btinternet.com> wrote:

But then, lists are in the standard Prelude, and hard-wired into the language syntax. Streams aren't exposed by any moderately standard library. Even the stream-fusion library treats streams as a sort of "under the covers" thing to deforest lists.

These two statements taken together are slightly ironic: stream-fusion's goal is to make streams wired-in syntax by borrowing the syntax from lists.

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