13 Jul
2007
13 Jul
'07
8:27 p.m.
On 7/13/07, Michael Vanier
What I meant by really-truly-absolutely-I-mean-right-now-seq is something that would evaluate its argument as far as it is possible to do so i.e. something that forces strict evaluation of an argument.
What you want is to reduce something to normal form. We have the rnf function (from the NFData class) on Control.Parallel.Strategies for this purpose, see http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Parallel-... and the must-read (IMHO) paper on http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~dsg/gph/papers/abstracts/strategies.html HTH, -- Felipe.