Hello Ki, Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 6:34:51 AM, you wrote:
> Unfortunately seq and the strict data declaration is not helpful in general. > They are only helpful on base values such as Int or Bool. > What they do is just making sure that it is not a thunk. > That is if it was a list it would just evaluate to see the cons cell > but no further. > Someone wrote a deepSeq module for forcing deep evaluation, which is it was a proposal to add deepSeq to the language itself (just allow to automatically derive it by compiler, for example). we can add another proposal of implementing deep strict fields: data T = C !![Int] -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
