Re: Data.IntMap.Strict.findWithDefault is too strict

Even a strict language like scala uses call-by-name arguments for the counterpart to this function in its collections library. It seems to be overstepping the mandate of being a "strict map library" to try to pretend that Haskell is a strict language. On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Johan Tibell wrote:

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Andreas Abel wrote:

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Key and value arguments are evaluated to WHNF

For consistency. The API is modeled as if we had call-by-value.

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