8 Jun
2007
8 Jun
'07
9:35 a.m.
Alistair_Bayley:
[mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Donald Bruce Stewart
3) -fbang-patterns
Better than `seq`
Better in the "more convenient to write" sense, right? AFAIUI, seq and bang patterns should be equivalent.
Yes, in the 'more convenient' sense. Adding strictness speculatively, while trying to debug a leak, is easier when inserting !, than to insert `seq`'s. It also doesn't obfuscate the code as much as the seq tricks do. -- Don