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		burntsushi on Jan 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gen - a generics library for Go This is kind of misleading. Stream fusion isn't baked into Haskell; you need to use a library. [1,2] `[1] - https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/915 [2] - http://hackage.haskell.org/package/stream-fusion`

coolsunglasses on Jan 12, 2014 | [–]

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-0.1/docs/Data-Text-F...

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/vector-0.9.1/docs/Data-Ve...

Except it's bloody everywhere in the libraries you use and you can design your own libraries around it.

A language powerful enough that things like this can be done in libraries instead of in the compiler is a good thing.

microtonal on Jan 12, 2014 | [–]

But, many of the commonly used libraries already use stream fusion, e.g. vector and text.

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