[Haskell-cafe] Re: curious about sum

[Edward Kmett]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Gleb Alexeyev <gleb.alexeev at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thomas Davie wrote:
>
>> No, I think it's extremely useful.  It highlights that numbers can both be
>> lazy and strict, and that the so called "useless" lazy sum, is in fact,
>> useful.
>>
>> But lazy sum should have beed defined in terms of foldr, not foldl. And
> foldl is not strict enough for strict sum. Therefore the current choice in
> the worst of both worlds.
>


I definitely agree with that sentiment.

-Edward Kmett
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