Understanding strictness of ghc output

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

it means Lazy, but it's misleading for unboxed types

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| bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Hey
| Sent: 22 June 2004 17:09
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| Subject: Re: Understanding strictness of ghc output
| 
| On Tuesday 22 Jun 2004 2:28 pm, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
| > The DmdType for the Int# is indeed "L" but that's irrelevant because
| > Int# values are always evaluated.  The demand info is always L for
an
| > unboxed type.
| 
| Thanks, I had noticed it did appear to have decided h was unboxed
| (assuming my interpretation of core was correct), so it seemed rather
| strange that addHeight could be lazy (non-strict) in that argument.
| 
| So does L mean "Lazy", or something else?
| 
| Thanks
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| Adrian Hey
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