deeqSeq proposal

Taral taralx at gmail.com
Tue Apr 4 10:12:12 EDT 2006


On 4/4/06, Simon Marlow <simonmar at microsoft.com> wrote:
> So deepSeq doesn't return _|_ when passed a cyclic structure?  This is a
> bad idea, because it lets you distinguish cyclic structures from
> infinite ones.  deepSeq has to behave like a function, regardless of its
> implementation.

Why is this necessary?

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Taral <taralx at gmail.com>
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