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 &quot;strict map library&quot; to try to pretend that Haskell is a strict language.<div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Johan Tibell <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:johan.tibell@gmail.com" target="_blank">johan.tibell@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Andreas Abel &lt;<a href="mailto:andreas.abel@ifi.lmu.de">andreas.abel@ifi.lmu.de</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; Key and value arguments are evaluated to WHNF<br>
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</div>For consistency. The API is modeled as if we had call-by-value.<br>
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