19 Jul
2002
19 Jul
'02
7:31 a.m.
On Friday 19 July 2002 12:10, George Russell wrote:
Would it be possible to bring the DeepSeq library into the libraries distributed with GHC? (I think Dean Herington is responsible for it.)
Of course it's easy enough to drop it into one's own program (I am just about to do this) but (1) It is fairly common to want to force deeper evaluation. (2) DeepSeq is simple enough to be dropped in the GHC distribution, without it causing much trouble or making it much bigger. (3) At the same time, it is not so simple that it can be reimplemented in a couple of lines.
Agree. Beeing able to derive instances of DeepSeq would be nice too. J.A.