Re: How do I force evaluation?

2001-03-12 Thread Jan de Wit
Hi, I want to do something like: | main = do | monstrousDataStructure - monstrousComputation | hPutStr stderr "success!" | ... The important point is that I want to make sure that the computation has terminated and not failed before I go to `...'. If the

GHC HQ are looking for a Linux-IA64 box

2001-03-12 Thread Julian Seward (Intl Vendor)
[Apologies if you get multiple copies of this msg.] Folks, Following a recent discussion about future development directions for GHC, it seems one thing we want to start thinking about is support for the IA64 architecture. Does any kind person have an IA64 box, running Linux, on which we

Re: GHC HQ are looking for a Linux-IA64 box

2001-03-12 Thread Fergus Henderson
On 12-Mar-2001, Julian Seward (Intl Vendor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does any kind person have an IA64 box, running Linux, on which we could have an account? You might want to check out SourceForge: http://ia-64.sourceforge.net/. -- Fergus Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "I have always

Re: How do I force evaluation?

2001-03-12 Thread Matthias Fischmann
Yes, that does not look very nice but it should work. In a private response, I was also pointed out the alternative solution of using case together with `seq` to trigger evaluation, which looked like the default way to me (what else is seq for?): | case monstrousDS `seq` True of True