Re: Exceptions are too return values!

[Dave Tweed]

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Fergus Henderson wrote:

> P.S.  Is there any reason why something like `HyperEval'
> isn't built in to Haskell, or at least include in the
> Haskell Library report?  Is there any implementation-specific
> precedent for something like this in say ghc?

I'd like to second this. It would have been very useful in some of the
stuff I've written, particularly since (understandably enough) when using
newtype you can't put ! annotations within the data-type.

cheers, dave
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