NFData

[Sittampalam, Ganesh]

I think that would make most sense given how important deep strictness
can
be in certain situations. A separate, very small package would also be
reasonable.

Don Stewart wrote:
> Should NFData class and instances be in base?
> 
> Data.Strict ?
> 
> ganesh.sittampalam:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> NFData seems to be the "standard" deepseq-style class these days, but
>> it lives in Control.Parallel.Strategies in the parallel package
>> whereas it obviously has uses beyond this. Is there a case for moving
>> it into its own package and module?
>> 
>> I'd also like to add something like
>> 
>> strictly :: (Monad m, NFData a) => m a -> m a strictly ma = do a <-
>>                  ma rnf a `seq` return a
>> 
>> The most important use for this would be to provide a standard way
>> to do strict IO: 
>> 
>> strictly $ readFile "..."
>> strictly $ hGetContents ...
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Ganesh
>> 
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