State monads don't respect the monad laws in Haskell

[Ken Shan]

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On 2002-05-14T12:32:30-0400, Jan-Willem Maessen wrote:
> And I'd really much rather we cleaned up the semantics of
> seq---or better yet, fixed the problems with lazy evaluation which
> make seq necessary in the first place.

A general question: What is seq useful for, other than efficiency?

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