Understanding strictness of ghc output

Carsten Schultz carsten at codimi.de
Tue Jun 22 09:09:17 EDT 2004


On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:52:44PM +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> Adrian Hey <ahey at iee.org> writes:
> [...] the first clause
>    addHeight h  E        = h
> is still lazy, because it simply binds the variable without forcing it.

Since  addHeight _|_ E -> _|_, this is strict in the first argument.
I do not know, what the strictness analyzer makes of it, though.

Greetings,

Carsten

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