Am Dienstag 15 September 2009 22:17:00 schrieb Cristiano Paris: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Ross Mellgren <rmm-hask...@z.odi.ac> wrote: > > Wouldn't seq b only force (at minimum) the first character of the file? > > I think it force the evaluation of the "Cons" in the String but not > the characters therein.
It evaluates the String far enough to know whether it's "" or (_:_), that is, to weak head normal form. It doesn't look at any character, but it forces at least one character to be read from the file. > > Cristiano _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
