30 Mar
2006
30 Mar
'06
3:23 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 05:58:24PM +0100, Jon Fairbairn wrote:
Or do what I suggested in http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/haskell-prime/2006-March/001120.html <26869.1143633002@calligramme.charmers> and make seq a pragma. It really doesn't matter that pragmas in C are optional: we don't have to follow that.
Would that really change that much. Anyone who likes the old seq function (less characters to type than with pragma) will be able to define it: seq a b = {-# SEQ a #-} b Perhaps if you allowed syntax for forcing many expressions people would be more willing to use it: {-# SEQ a, b, c, d #-} e Best regards Tomasz