Hi,

I just observed that GHC optimizes

fun (n::Int) = n == 0 + n

to essentially

fun (n::Int) = n `seq` True


I am wondering under what circumstances we would be happy to transform
this further to

fun _ = True


Clearly, we do not want to drop `seq`s in general. But is there some
commonly accepted rule about which strictness we generally allow the
compiler to get rid of, if it turns out that the compiler can do
without? Or are all such transformations out of bounds for GHC?

Greetings,
Joachim

-- 
Joachim Breitner
  m...@joachim-breitner.de
  http://www.joachim-breitner.de/

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