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by masklinn 5462 days ago
> He has suggested that laziness was perhaps not the best default. It is hard to reason about space leaks with laziness.

Aha, but it's perhaps not the best default for practical reasons, and it is the best default for theoretical reasons. Does that not make ML's eagerness an example of worse is better, because the worse theoretical solution is simpler the the rubber meets the road and you just want to find out where you're leaking memory>