Proposal: Value strict versions of containers

[Henning Thielemann]

On Sat, 21 May 2011, Edward Z. Yang wrote:

> As it stands, we have strict functions for certain operations, such as
> insertWith.  But this current selection is somewhat arbitrary.  For
> illustrative purposes, here are other functions that ought to be strictified in
> IntMap, because there is no easy way for a user to implement them.

Is it possible to solve this with the proposed Location interface?

"Library proposal: add a Location interface for element-wise operations on Data.Map"
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2011-January/015593.html