Proposal: Value strict versions of containers

[Malcolm Wallace]

On 22 May 2011, at 11:58, Milan Straka wrote:

>> Excerpts from Milan Straka's message of Sun May 22 06:50:07 -0400 2011:
>>> - the types Data.IntMap.IntMap, Data.IntMap.Lazy.IntMap and
>>>  Data.IntMap.Strict.IntMap should be equal -- so I can use strict
>>>  methods on IntMap someone else created with lazy methods. That is
>>>  simple in absence of type classes.
>> 
>> Comment: This would mean you would get no static assurances against
>> mixing up a strict IntMap with a lazy IntMap; for all intents and purposes,
>> this is equivalent to implementing strict versions of all functions on top
>> of a lazy data type.
> 
> Exactly.

+1 for this proposal.