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

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

But that *isn't* a reason to merge deepseq into the already too-big base package, is it?  And that is the root of Ian's objection.

No. Lets just reverse the containers <-> deepseq dependency and make deepseq a bootlib. Johan