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		sullyj3 on March 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It never makes sense to use foldl on lists in Hask... Due to GHC's fusion, they're often not even created. They're used more like control flow constructs than arrays.

hope-striker on March 22, 2020 [–]

Right, I mostly end up using Haskell's lists as an extremely ergonomic counterpart to iterators / generators in languages like Python and Rust.

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