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-XStrict?

• 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
  It's easy to write strict code in haskell, but the default behavior affects community norms, and what's considered standard and idiomatic. That's where I think the evolution could have been different.
  • massysett 6y ago
    Haskell would never have been strict by default, because the entire point of Haskell was to be a common basis for research into non-strict languages. Non-strictness is simply the core of what Haskell is.