Heh.

Just to ask, though -- would anything major get broken if we did go ahead, modify base, and delay inlining foldl?

Louis Wasserman
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Roman Leshchinskiy <rl@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> On 23/04/2010, at 00:32, Gwern Branwen wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Roman Leshchinskiy <rl@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>>>
>>> FWIW, I'm a bit surprised that you need foldl on lists anyway. I thought everybody uses foldl'.
>>
>> Not nearly: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/bmd5u/thunks_and_haskell/c0nl7u2
>>
>> There are a lot of foldl uses out there.
>
> Hmm, I'd love to see some real-world uses of foldl. I have no idea what to optimise it for in vector. Unfortunately, the link above doesn't give any examples.
>
> Roman

Well, since you ask...

$ find . -name "*.hs" -exec grep -H ' foldl ' {} \;  > ~/fold.txt
$ wc ~/fold.txt
 2206  24333 225619 fold.txt

--
gwern