5 Sep
2008
5 Sep
'08
2:52 a.m.
On 9/4/08, Jake Mcarthur
My guess would be that a master usually adds strictness annotations as documentation rather than as optimizations.
I'm no master, but I've never encountered a situation where strictness annotations would be useful as documentation, nor can I imagine one. That's because optimization *is* the only reason why programmers should care about strictness information. IMO, arguing that programmers should care at all amounts to conceding that default laziness is treacherous. Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier * http://cs.pdx.edu/~tjc * Often in error, never in doubt "Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way." -- Chris Lowe