Re: [Haskell-cafe] Possible Improvements

"Johan Tibell" writes:

It would be great if someone could exemplify these "rules of thumb", e.g. "Primitive types such as Int should be strict unless in the three canonical examples X, Y and Z." My strictness radar is still quite poor and I feel I can't make informed decisions on when I need to make something more strict or lazy.

I find that I often need to add strictness when: left thumb) parsing [Char] into something more compact, i.e. almost all cases. right thumb) storing data into maps, especially when the values are produced by multiple updates - i.e. doing word frequency counts. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants