deeqSeq proposal

[Lennart Augustsson]

Jan-Willem Maessen wrote:
> 
> On Apr 11, 2006, at 5:37 PM, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> 
>> Yes, I realize than dynamic idempotence is not the same as
>> cycle detection.  I still worry. :)
>>
>> I think expectance is in the eye of the beholder.  The reason
>> that (the pure subset of) pH was a proper implementation of
>> Haskell was because we were not over-specifying the semantics
>> originally.  I would hate to do that now.
> 
> Though, to be fair, an awful lot of Prelude code didn't work in pH 
> unless it was re-written to vary slightly from the specification.  So 
> the assumption of laziness was more deeply embedded than the spec was 
> willing to acknowledge.
> 
> -Jan-Willem Maessen

Well, if the pH scheduler had been fair I think the Prelude functions
would have been semantically correct (but maybe not efficient).

	-- Lennart