Re: Proposal: Adding generics-based rnf-helper to `deepseq`

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:

Henning Thielemann writes:

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As far as I know, deepseq is currently plain Haskell 98. This would no longer be true with a dependency on generics. Thus I would prefer to keep deepseq and generic-deepseq separated.

that's right (although one could make that an optional feature of the `deepseq` package, depending on the availability of the generics-feature, so that `deepseq` could still build with a pure H98 compiler)

And how would one write packages that depend on deepseq, that can be compiled easily on both, say, GHC and JHC?