DeepSeq

[John Meacham]

DrIFT can derive 'rnf' or reduce to normal form for arbitrary classes
which is similar to deepSeq, in fact does anyone have a good description
as to how they are different?
	John

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:31:40PM +0100, Jorge Adriano wrote:
> On Friday 19 July 2002 12:10, George Russell wrote:
> > Would it be possible to bring the DeepSeq library into the libraries
> > distributed with GHC?  (I think Dean Herington is responsible for it.)
> >
> > Of course it's easy enough to drop it into one's own program (I am just
> > about to do this) but
> > (1) It is fairly common to want to force deeper evaluation.
> > (2) DeepSeq is simple enough to be dropped in the GHC distribution, without
> > it causing much trouble or making it much bigger.
> > (3) At the same time, it is not so simple that it can be reimplemented in a
> > couple of lines.
> 
> Agree. 
> Beeing able to derive instances of DeepSeq would be nice too.
> 
> J.A.
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