proposal: add 'unsafeCoerce'

[kahl at cas.mcmaster.ca]

Malcolm Wallace wrote:
 > 
 > Currently, all implementations provide either the 'unsafeCoerce' or
 > 'unsafeCoerce#' functions, but they live in implementation-specific
 > locations.  This proposal is to adopt the Haskell'98-compatible name
 > 'unsafeCoerce', and to add it to the standard base library package.
 > Suggested location: Data.Function.Unsafe?
 > 
 >     http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/994

I'd much prefer Data.Unsafe.

(It is a function, but has nothing to do with functions as data type.)


Wolfram