-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/3/10 10:24 , Stefan Holdermans wrote: > Implementing your suggestion would make me feel uncomfortable. Turning seq > into an unsafe operations effectively places it outside the language, like > unsafePerformIO isn't really part of the language (in my view, at least). But > experience has made it clear that there are plenty of occasions in which we > cannot really do without seq (even though its presence in the language is > prominent subject of debate).
...which sounds a lot like unsafePerformIO (which *is* inside the language; it's part of the FFI addendum). The parallels are exactly why I suggested it become unsafeSeq. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [email protected] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [email protected] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxYR/gACgkQIn7hlCsL25WE8QCgtAs+gq93pZeRsBwsis9HLSWm xeEAn2xuKLYSB4IsFlxlssL5Hf3Pxo1x =oA8A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
