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Really, my reason for saying I wouldn't learn anything is because I personally learn better from concrete examples. That's why I like the RWH chapter. It gives you knowledge of how GHC represents your program, and helps you use that to change your program accordingly. Perhaps I should have reserved my criticism for the end of the series. Hopefully you will show us how to apply your model to our real programs. For instance, I think it would be neat to have a simple example of, say, folding a list. Show us what happens when we make a field strict. Show why `True || undefined` doesn't blow up. Just some suggestions.

I agree with you on the wikibooks article. I included it so someone reading my comment would have a place to go for the rest of the story that RWH doesn't talk about.

(By the way you might want to reformat your links, HN seems to have misinterpreted them.)




Good suggestions, and I hope to do them.




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