Ben Millwood <hask...@benmachine.co.uk> writes: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic > <ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Forcing; it means that the values are evaluated (up to WHNF) before the >> Complex value is constructed: >> >> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.1/html/users_guide/bang-patterns.html >> > > Actually, this isn't a bang pattern: the 'a' here is not a pattern, > it's a type variable. Strictness flags in data declarations are a > haskell98 feature. > > See: > > http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch4.html#x10-680004.2 > > the paragraph on Strictness Flags a little way down that page.
Ugh, yeah; I should read what links I google for before putting them in emails :s -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
