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Re:Seemingly impossible functional programs (2007) by brianberns on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @11:56AM (#10582343)
Thank you. How does Haskell manage to avoid evaluating find_i(...) before invoking p? Since the inner value is the argument to p, it's hard to imagine how p can do anything until it has that value.

EDIT: I think I see the light. The result of find_i(...) is not what's sent to p. Instead, Haskell passes a thunk that might never need to be evaluated.

Re:Seemingly impossible functional programs (2007) by tome on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @12:26PM (#10582592)
Exactly. If I write

    let f x = 1

    print (f (g somethingelse))
then the call to g is never evaluated. f returns 1 immediately.