Strictness without ordering, or confusion
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As the Haskell 2010 Report does not specify any order of evaluation with respect to its parameters, the name of the primitive seq :: a -> b -> b
is a misnomer.
Introduce the primitive amid
, with the same (Haskell 2010 Report) requirements:
infixr 0 `amid`
primtive amid :: a -> b -> b
infixr 0 $!
($!) :: (a -> b) -> a -> b
f $! x = x `amid` f x
This frees the name "seq" for use with a new primitive, analogous to the GHC primitive pseq
, but not restricted to parallel programming.
If needed, "amidst" is one alternate basename for the deepseq library and its definitions.
References:
- Thread: seq vs. pseq, Haskell mail archive.
- Ticket# 5129: "evaluate" optimized away; GHC bug tracker.
Atravers 01:17, 7 January 2019 (UTC)