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Re:I tried Haskell for 5 years by proaralyst on Thursday May 04, 2017 @04:39PM (#14268579)
My impression on the consensus was that laziness was good for the tree (computation) but bad for the leaves (datatypes); hence the good practice of using strictness annotations on datatypes.
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Re:I tried Haskell for 5 years by whateveracct on Thursday May 04, 2017 @10:20PM (#14270664)
> hence the good practice of using strictness annotations on datatypes.

It's such a good practice that there's -XStrictData (different than the pragma mentioned by GP)

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