Re: [Haskell-cafe] Constructor question

Ben Millwood writes:

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

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Forcing; it means that the values are evaluated (up to WHNF) before the Complex value is constructed:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.1/html/users_guide/bang-patterns.html

Actually, this isn't a bang pattern: the 'a' here is not a pattern, it's a type variable. Strictness flags in data declarations are a haskell98 feature.

See:

http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch4.html#x10-680004.2

the paragraph on Strictness Flags a little way down that page.

Ugh, yeah; I should read what links I google for before putting them in emails :s -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com