Proposal: Make `NFData` a fundamental/primitive type-class (by making `deepseq` a GHC-boot package)

wren ng thornton wren at freegeek.org
Wed Aug 24 07:32:45 CEST 2011


On 8/23/11 9:23 AM, Gregory Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel<hvr at gnu.org>  wrote:
>> Proposal:
>> ~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Make `NFData` a fundamental/primitive type-class
>> (by making `deepseq` a GHC-boot package)

+1.

> I'm strongly in favour of this also. IIRC Ian was the one who objected
> most strenuously last time. What sayest thou, Ian?

I'm curious about that too.

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