Re: Proposal: Make `NFData` a fundamental/primitive type-class (by making `deepseq` a GHC-boot package)

On Wednesday 24 August 2011, 07:32:45, wren ng thornton wrote:

On 8/23/11 9:23 AM, Gregory Collins wrote:

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On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:

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Proposal: ~~~~~~~~~

Make `NFData` a fundamental/primitive type-class (by making `deepseq` a GHC-boot package)

+1.

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I'm strongly in favour of this also. IIRC Ian was the one who objected most strenuously last time. What sayest thou, Ian?

I'm curious about that too.

I seem to recall that Ian is on vacation, so your curiosity would have to wait a bit. Unless good reasons against surface, I support this proposal too.