Hi, NFData seems to be the "standard" deepseq-style class these days, but it lives in Control.Parallel.Strategies in the parallel package whereas it obviously has uses beyond this. Is there a case for moving it into its own package and module? I'd also like to add something like strictly :: (Monad m, NFData a) => m a -> m a strictly ma = do a <- ma rnf a `seq` return a The most important use for this would be to provide a standard way to do strict IO: strictly $ readFile "..." strictly $ hGetContents ... Thoughts? Cheers, Ganesh =============================================================================== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.credit-suisse.com/legal/en/disclaimer_email_ib.html ===============================================================================