[Haskell-cafe] sequence causing stack overflow on pretty small lists

[Henning Thielemann]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2013, John Lato wrote:

> [1] Most people are physically incapable of reading documents that explain why what they want to do won't
> work.  Even if people did read the documentation, I suspect that the people most in need of the information
> would be the least likely to understand how it applies to their situation.

Plus: I don't expect that programmers read the documentation of 'sequence' 
and 'mapM' again every time they use the function.