I am pleased to announce the first release of package strict which provides strict versions of standard Haskell types. At the moment, pairs, Maybe and Either are defined. For instance, strict Maybe is defined as data Maybe a = Nothing | Just !a Package homepage: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~rl/code/strict.html Hackage page: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/strict-0.1 Download: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~rl/code/strict/strict-0.1.tar.gz or from Hackage http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/strict/strict-0.1.tar.gz Online documentation: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~rl/code/doc/strict Darcs repository: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~rl/code/darcs/strict Please send bug reports, suggestions etc. to Roman Leshchinskiy <rl@cse.unsw.edu.au>