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by prodigal_erik 5566 days ago
Please don't use "strict" regarding a language's type checking. It's already used in domain theory for functions which rely on arguments being well-defined and computable. It is one of Haskell's defining features that by default, functions and data structures are not strict.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_theory

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Denotational_semantics