Hello, just as an addition to the discussion (one week ago or so) about Haskell being defined as a non-strict rather than lazy language: in that context it struck me as odd that Section 6.2 of the Report says `seq` is used to avoid "unneeded laziness". The only other uses of "lazy" seem to appear in the context of irrefutable patterns, getContents, and a source comment for the function transpose in the List library. Ciao, Janis. -- Janis Voigtlaender http://wwwtcs.inf.tu-dresden.de/~voigt/ mailto:voigt@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de