I agree. I think part of the issue is that one is in "imperative mindset" when writing this code. For me that seems to make it easier to miss "modify" space leaks in a forM loop, than if I were writing pure code with a fold.
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On Sep 28, 2012, at 3:19 PM, Evan Laforge
In general it would be nice if the notion of strictness were better addressed in the major libraries' documentation. It's a nuanced issue which is not fully captured by a ".Lazy" or ".Strict" in the module name.
I agree. I too wasted a significant amount of time hunting down space leaks with were fixed by adding a modify' function. If it had been in the State module along with documentation about the implications, I could have saved time.
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