DrIFT can derive 'rnf' or reduce to normal form for arbitrary classes which is similar to deepSeq, in fact does anyone have a good description as to how they are different? John
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:31:40PM +0100, Jorge Adriano wrote: > On Friday 19 July 2002 12:10, George Russell wrote: > > Would it be possible to bring the DeepSeq library into the libraries > > distributed with GHC? (I think Dean Herington is responsible for it.) > > > > Of course it's easy enough to drop it into one's own program (I am just > > about to do this) but > > (1) It is fairly common to want to force deeper evaluation. > > (2) DeepSeq is simple enough to be dropped in the GHC distribution, without > > it causing much trouble or making it much bigger. > > (3) At the same time, it is not so simple that it can be reimplemented in a > > couple of lines. > > Agree. > Beeing able to derive instances of DeepSeq would be nice too. > > J.A. > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Meacham - California Institute of Technology, Alum. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users