Can cardinality analysis subsume strictness analysis

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

after playing a bit with the Demand analyser and trying debug tricky
bugs (#8569), I begin to wonder: Can cardinality analysis subsume
strictness analysis?

Not directly, obviously, but if we change

data Count = One | Many
to
data Count = AtMostOne | ExactlyOne | AtLeastOne | Many
(or some other form that would allow us to express all possible
intervals in {0,1,∞}), would the demand and cardinality analysis then
not subsume strictness, given that:
        A value is used strictly if is definitely used at least once?

That might simplify the Demand.lhs code, and also the demand signatures,
quite a bit, because currently it carries strictness and demand data
around separately, duplicating lots of stuff.

Greetings,
Joachim


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