For posterity, the answer is no, and it is explained in this comment: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5129#comment:2
Edward Excerpts from David Feuer's message of 2015-01-07 11:12:55 -0800: > I've read about the inlining issues surrounding > Control.Exception.evaluate that seem to have prompted the creation of > seq#, but I'm still missing something. Isn't seq# a s the same as > let !a' = a in (# s, a' #) ? > > David _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
