Re: [Haskell-cafe] What's the deal with Clean?

On Nov 5, 2009, at 8:26 AM, Jason Dagit wrote:

Haskell knows when I have a list of Doubles, you know, because it's strongly typed.

Then it proceeds to box them. Huh ?

Imagine a computation which will yield a Double if evaluated, but has not yet been evaluated. How do you store that in the list?

So laziness is causing the boxing to be necessary ?