Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: extending bang proposal Re: strict Haskelldialect

2006-02-07 Thread Brian Hulley
Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote: Brian Hulley wrote: One motivation seems to be that in the absence of whole program optimization, the strictness annotations on a function's type can allow the compiler to avoid creating thunks at the call site for cross-module calls whereas using seq in the function

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: extending bang proposal Re: strict Haskelldialect

2006-02-06 Thread Brian Hulley
Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote: As Robert Dockins said, it's not implemented, and it isn't clear how to implement it. At this point it's looking fairly likely that my PhD thesis will be on this very topic, so stay tuned. Isn't all this already implemented in Clean? Regards, Brian.