ANNOUNCE: deepseq-1.0.0.0

[Simon Marlow]

On 19/11/2009 11:52, Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote:
> Yitzchak Gale wrote:
>> Simon Marlow wrote:
>>> So then what shall we call the a ->  () version?
>>> One possibility is to go back to calling it rnf.
>>
>> In light of apfelmus' comment, I vote for rnf.
>>
>> And in that case, how about the analogous alternative for seq itself:
>>
>> hnf :: a ->  ()
>
> I think it would be whnf since it doesn't evaluate under lambdas.
>
> I also vote for rnf, because we should have a good reason for changing
> names of things.

Various people would prefer rnf.

Ok, unless there are any further objections, I'll change the names back to

class NFData a where
    rnf :: a -> ()

and also add

   deepseq :: a -> b -> b

but I'll leave the module name as Control.DeepSeq.

Cheers,
	Simon