Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Bárður �rantsson wrote:
> 
>> What you're saying is basically that lazy pattern matching should only 
>> force as much of the value under examination as is actually necessary to 
>> decide if there's a match. Do I have that right?
>>
>> If so, then Haskell does exactly this.
> 
> But haskell is lazy by default so of course it does it right.
> 

Indeed. I was just having a devil of time figuring out what people were 
actually trying to say and some people seemed to be talking past each 
other, so I just thought I'd try phrasing it as succinctly as possible. 
(Using Haskell as an example of how to do it right.)

Cheers,

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Bardur Arantsson
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