On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 22:38 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
Moreover, this would pave the way for a future proposal to merge the `deepseq` into `base` at some later point.
I'm strongly in favour of this also. IIRC Ian was the one who objected most strenuously last time. What sayest thou, Ian?
In general, my opinion is still that we should be trying to make base smaller, not larger.
That's fine too -- although merging `deepseq` w/ `base` is beyond this proposal (I mentioned it for the case `NFData` was about to make its way into a future Haskell20xx (Library) Report). But what's about the actual proposal at hand? +1 or -1? :-) However, out of curiosity and generally speaking: What should be part of `base` anyway? The current descriptions says | This package contains the Prelude and its support libraries, and a | large collection of useful libraries ranging from data structures to | parsing combinators and debugging utilities. -- hvr