[Haskell-cafe] Lazy Lists and IO

[Andrew Coppin]

Brent Yorgey wrote:
>
>     > Nevertheless, length is a function you should rarely use.
>     >
>
>     Amen.
>
>     (I believe the Wiki mentions this concept somewhere... Maybe we should
>     rename it unsafeLength? No, OK, how about... um... slowLength?)
>
>
> It isn't actually slow... how about 
> beSureYouReallyWantIntBeforeUsingThisLength? =)

O RLY?

 > length [1..]

Takes almost *forever* on my machine. ;-)