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		weebull on Nov 3, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unix core utilities implemented in Haskell Lazy to strict is reasonably easy to do though. The problem is normally that once one bit goes strict, most other things implicitly do too. Strict to lazy is normally a rewrite.

vacuity on Nov 3, 2024 [–]

I think the scope of lazy constructs should usually be far less than that of strict constructs, so it's only in the cases where the librarified lazy abstractions don't fit that you need a rewrite. Lazy to strict isn't hard, but I don't want the performance and cognitive overhead of lazy-by-default.

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