Clarification on Lazy Evaluation and its efficiency
问题 I came across following sentence on Real World Haskell: Lazy evaluation has some spooky effects. Let's say we want to find the k least-valued elements of an unsorted list. In a traditional language, the obvious approach would be to sort the list and take the first k elements, but this is expensive. For efficiency, we would instead write a special function that takes these values in one pass, and it would have to perform some moderately complex book-keeping. In Haskell, the sort-then-take