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

[Daniel Fischer]

On Wednesday 24 August 2011, 07:32:45, wren ng thornton wrote:
> 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.

I seem to recall that Ian is on vacation, so your curiosity would have to 
wait a bit.

Unless good reasons against surface, I support this proposal too.