Amanda Clare wrote: > > Dean Herington wrote: > > > > `seq` forces evaluation of only the top-level construct in its first > > argument. (($!) similarly for its second argument.) I would guess your > > "newcounts" are structured (probably a tuple or list), in which case you are > > not forcing evaluation deeply enough. See > > http://haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2001-August/001581.html and followup > > article. > > Thanks, that's just what I need. It works!
Then using a data type with strict data constructor arguments together with ($!) in return should also work. Olaf -- OLAF CHITIL, Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK. URL: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~olaf/ Tel: +44 1904 434756; Fax: +44 1904 432767 _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
