Re: [Haskell-cafe] two problems with Data.Binary and Data.ByteString

bos:

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Tim Newsham wrote:

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(my keys are dates, which are Enum). This should look at every key in every inner map. Shouldn't that be sufficient to force the entire data set (or do I have to touch the fields in the data elements too?)

You might have to force the last value of the alist that the map gets flattened into, since otherwise there's no guarantee that it will be read.

You really, really want to be using rnf for this job, instead of turning your brain into a pretzel shape.

The Pretzel being one of the lesser-known lazy, cyclic, functional data structures. -- Don