[Haskell-cafe] deepSeq vs rnf

[Malcolm Wallace]

Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:47:20PM +0100, Björn Bringert wrote:
> > I wanted to use the Strategies library and didn't understand much of
> > it,  so I sat down and documented it. The darcs version, 
> > http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/base/Control/Parallel/Strategies.hs
> > has my changes.
> 
> Perhaps it would make sense to move all the NFData material to a new
> module called, say, Control.NormalForm, and maybe add a deepSeq
> function there.  Control.Parallel.Strategies is a somewhat surprising
> place to find normal form functions, and most of the people who are
> using them aren't thinking about parallelism.

Agreed.  [ Bikeshed time:  Control.Evaluation.Strategies anyone? ]

Regards,
    Malcolm