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Difficulty of implementing `case` expressions in a template-instantiation evaluator for a lazy functional language?

I'm following "Implementing functional languages: a tutorial" by SPJ, and I'm stuck on Exercise 2.18 (page 70), reproduced below. This is in the chapter about a template-instantiation evalua...
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Jonathan Lam

haskell

switch-statement

lazy-evaluation

template-instantiation

miranda

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I think I figured it out while I was expanding on my reasoning in the question. I'll post here for posterity, but if someone has a more understandable explanation or is able to correct me I'll be happ...
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Jonathan Lam

Canonical name for Iseq from "Implementing Functional Languages: a tutorial"

In Simon Peyton Jones's "Implementing Functional Languages: a tutorial", a data structure for efficient string building called Iseq, also referred to as iseq and iseqRep. This can be found b...
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Jonathan Lam

serialization

miranda

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