<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I'm trying to get a better handle on
eager/strict eval in haskell, and a great way to do this is by building
up from simple exercises to harder exercises.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">So far I have</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">exercise 1) add the integers [1..10^6]
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> (stack overflows if you do a
naive fold, as described on wiki)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">exercise 2) find the first integer such
that average of [1..n] is > [10^6] </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> (solution involves building an
accum list of (average,listLength) tuples. again you can't do a naive fold
due to stack overflow, but in this case even strict foldl' from data.list
isn't "strict enough", I had to define my own custom fold to
be strict on the tuples.)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">anybody got other suggestions, or links
to places where eager eval is required to solve simply stated problems?
or exercises that demystify doing eager IO/eager whatever monad, where
that is required?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Also am I correct that the terms eager
and strict can be used more or less interchangeably in this problem space?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Tired of this folk wisdom that haskell
is only for the elite because getting around stack overflow from lazy eval
is impossible to teach to newbies.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">t.</font>
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