> > how do the amount of leaky abstractions compare in Haskell to other languages? > I don't think Haskell is worse than any other language in that regard. Ma

> > how do the amount of leaky abstractions compare in Haskell to other languages? > I don't think Haskell is worse than any other language in that regard. Many Haskellers are happy about this kind of stuff: min = head . sort which is the very definition of a leaky abstraction. The blame lies with laziness, because it allows code to depend on implementation details of other code in crazy ways: "sort is O(n log n) unless you ask for only the first element, in which case it's O(n). What if you ask for the last element? Uhhh..."