Strict Evaluation

[joe9]

Hello,

Thanks for sharing Hackett. It seems to bring out the best of haskell and scheme.

Just want to check if there is any way to turn off lazy evaluation. I noticed that lazy evaluation is more of a hindrance after the prototype stage (from my Haskell experience).

If I want to patch Hackett to use strict evaluation for my purposes, Is that a big effort?

Thanks again

[lexi-lambda]

I noticed that lazy evaluation is more of a hindrance after the prototype stage (from my Haskell experience).

This seems like an odd statement to me. Perhaps you could elaborate on it?

That said, I have not decided on a default evaluation model for Hackett. I’d like to make laziness work, but it would be a significant undertaking. In the short term, I’m not sure what my plan is going to be, but in the long-term, I think it would definitely make sense to have a #lang hackett/strict and/or a #lang hackett/lazy to complement the default evaluation model.