Proposal: deepseq should not depend on containers
Milan Straka
fox at ucw.cz
Wed Dec 29 20:07:35 CET 2010
Hi,
> Ticket:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4868
>
> Copy of proposal:
>
> The deepseq package depends on the containers package. This forces
> all packages that want to depend on deepseq in order to provide a
> NFData instance for exported types, to also depend on containers.
>
> Proposal, have containers depend on deepseq, not the other way around,
> and define the NFData instances for the types in the containers
> package, in the containers package.
+1.
Not only is it more appealing that way, the instances will also be more
efficient.
Cheers,
Milan
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