On 7/13/07, Michael Vanier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What I meant by really-truly-absolutely-I-mean-right-now-seq is something that 
would evaluate its
argument as far as it is possible to do so i.e. something that forces strict 
evaluation of an
argument.

What you want is to reduce something to normal form. We have the rnf
function (from the NFData class) on Control.Parallel.Strategies for
this purpose, see

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Parallel-Strategies.html#v%3Arnf

and the must-read (IMHO) paper on

http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~dsg/gph/papers/abstracts/strategies.html


HTH,

--
Felipe.
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