Wired-in data-constructors with UNPACKed fields

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Mon Aug 25 15:27:56 UTC 2014


On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:01:17PM +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> 
> My recommendation would be to try (3) first.  Ian Lynagh (cc'd) may be able to comment about why the inconsistency above arose in the first place, and why we can't simply fix it.

I don't know of any reason we can't. I think we didn't before because we
didn't need to change S#, and didn't realise that there would be any
benefit to doing so.


Thanks
Ian



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