Re: [Haskell-beginners] deep seq and bang patterns

A simple

return $! result

to force evaluation of result to WHNF suffices to require the fields (except the `channel' field that's not marked strict) being evaluated.

Otherwise I tested that right now and you are 100% right. So strictness annotations + $! works fine and solves my problem and I also mostly understand why it works like that :-) I still need to do a little more reading on the topic but I'm much closer now. Thank you! Emmanuel