On 19/01/07, Brian Hulley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1) Does anyone know why this was not used in the first place?
It was decided that strictness annotations, and optimisations in general, should typically come after you'd written your program. However, requiring a Seq context everywhere would change your types, which is something you don't want to do when you've finished writing your program. -- -David House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe