On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:19:15PM +1000, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: > > IMO, if people use unboxed values too much it's because the rest of > language doesn't offer them enough tools to achieve what they want. If > that's the case (and I sometimes feel that it is), the better solution > would be to offer those tool, IMO. In DPH, I use them mostly to > specify strictness and to ensure that some values will indeed be > unboxed in the presence of higher-order functions. If there was a > different way of expressing this, I would use that in a heartbeat.
Hard to say without an example, but it sounds like bang patterns should be able to do this. Or even just strictness analysis. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
