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In a quick browse to Elm site I could not find how it evaluate functions. Because it transliterate to JavaScript, functions are called by value.

I did the following experiment:

<syntaxhighlight lang="text">

<code>

enumFrom : number -> List number

enumFrom n = n :: (enumFrom (n+1))

</syntaxhighlight>

</code>

testing the function I got:

<syntaxhighlight lang="text">

<code>

> List.take 5 (enumFrom 1)

too much recursion

</syntaxhighlight>

</code>

a lazy language (call by need) would eval to:

<syntaxhighlight lang="text">

<code>

[1,2,3,4,5]

</syntaxhighlight>

</code>

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