laziness again...

[Ketil Z. Malde]

Hi,

I'm a bit puzzled by this observatio that I made.  I have a function
that, pseudocoded, lookes somewhat like

f i as bs cs = ins i (f (i+1) as) ++ ins i (f (i+1) bs) ++ ins i (f (i+1) cs)  
        where ins i = manipulates the first element of the list

Now, without the ins'es, the function appears to be lazy, i.e I can
"take" a part of it without evalutating the rest.  With the ins'es,
the whole thing seems to be calculated as soon as I touch it.

Is this obvious?  Or is my observation wrong? 

-kzm
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