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Thinking About Haskell*: You Know Lazy Evaluation; You Just Don’t Know It
[Post updated to reflect comments. ...too much late night typing...] Lazy evaluation is a very novel aspect of Haskell. Turns out that it’s not that difficult to think about.
A very common example of lazy-ish evaluation is ‘&&’ operators used in lots of languages (using C#):
if ( (obj != null) && (obj.someMethod() == somethingElse) ) { // do something }
