Heh. Just to ask, though -- would anything major get broken if we *did* go ahead, modify base, and delay inlining foldl? Louis Wasserman wasserman.louis@gmail.com http://profiles.google.com/wasserman.louis On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:

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On 23/04/2010, at 00:32, Gwern Branwen wrote:

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On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote:

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FWIW, I'm a bit surprised that you need foldl on lists anyway. I

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: thought everybody uses foldl'.

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Not nearly:

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/bmd5u/thunks_and_haskell/c0nl7u2

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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