Re: Exceptions are too return values!

[Alastair Reid]

> 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?

Dave Tweed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added:
> 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.

I believe this is what the derive program (available from Glasgow's web site)
was originally developed for.


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