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You already know that Haskell is based on lazy evaluation. This means that the expressions are evaluated only when it is necessary. But what is “necessary”? In this chapter, you will get an answer to that question, and you will take a deeper look at lazy evaluation in Haskell.
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© 2019 Stefania Loredana Nita and Marius Mihailescu
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Nita, S.L., Mihailescu, M. (2019). Lazy Evaluation. In: Haskell Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4507-1_21
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