bug in language definition (strictness)

[Isaac Dupree]

Simon Marlow wrote:
> I'm against the change originally proposed in this thread, because on 
> its own it doesn't make any difference.

I wonder if in practice, if we modified the definition of $! in the GHC 
libraries, whether GHC would compile things differently enough that we 
would notice the difference.  Probably not often enough to really notice...

-Isaac