17 Oct
2010
17 Oct
'10
2:43 p.m.
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Stefan Monnier
AFAIK laziness is a property of the major implementations of Haskell, but not really of the language itself. All I see in the Haskell report points at it being "applicative", "call by name", but nowhere does the report seem to mandate a lazy strategy. It's just that being purely functional implies that the compiler is free to use laziness.
Yes. The rumor I heard is that Haskell is non-strict: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Lazy_vs._non-strict - jeremy