[Haskell-cafe] Questioning seq

Janis Voigtländer jv at informatik.uni-bonn.de
Thu Apr 14 20:10:03 CEST 2011


Am 14.04.2011 18:57:35 schrieb Andrew Coppin<andrewcoppin at btinternet.com>:
> A couple of questions:
>
> 1. Why is the existence of polymorphic seq bad?

See http://www.iai.uni-bonn.de/~jv/acta.pdf, Sections 1 and 2 and
pointers therein.

Also, numerous discussions on this list over the years.

Best,
Janis.

> 2. Why would the existence of polymorphic rnf be worse?
>
> 3. How is pseq different from seq?
>
> That is all...
>


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