On 19/11/2009 11:52, Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote:
Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Simon Marlow wrote:
So then what shall we call the a -> () version?
One possibility is to go back to calling it rnf.
In light of apfelmus' comment, I vote for rnf.
And in that case, how about the analogous alternative for seq itself:
hnf :: a -> ()
I think it would be whnf since it doesn't evaluate under lambdas.
I also vote for rnf, because we should have a good reason for changing
names of things.
Various people would prefer rnf.
Ok, unless there are any further objections, I'll change the names back to
class NFData a where
rnf :: a -> ()
and also add
deepseq :: a -> b -> b
but I'll leave the module name as Control.DeepSeq.
Cheers,
Simon
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