Hello Ki, Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 6:34:51 AM, you wrote:

Unfortunately seq and the strict data declaration is not helpful in general. They are only helpful on base values such as Int or Bool. What they do is just making sure that it is not a thunk. That is if it was a list it would just evaluate to see the cons cell but no further.

Someone wrote a deepSeq module for forcing deep evaluation, which is

it was a proposal to add deepSeq to the language itself (just allow to automatically derive it by compiler, for example). we can add another proposal of implementing deep strict fields: data T = C !![Int] -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com