Re: [Haskell-cafe] deepSeq vs rnf

On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 02:53:45PM +0000, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

Ross Paterson wrote:

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Perhaps it would make sense to move all the NFData material to a new module called, say, Control.NormalForm, and maybe add a deepSeq function there. Control.Parallel.Strategies is a somewhat surprising place to find normal form functions, and most of the people who are using them aren't thinking about parallelism.

Agreed. [ Bikeshed time: Control.Evaluation.Strategies anyone? ]

The suggestion is a module containing just class NFData, instances for Prelude types, and perhaps deepSeq :: NFData a => a -> b -> b deepSeq x y = rnf x `seq` y Shouldn't it have something like NF in the name?