> On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 01:20, Keith Wansbrough wrote:
> 
> > You can also annotate something (in Haskell) to say "this is strict" - 
> > this will usually cause it to be unboxed - and in GHC you can also say 
> > "this must be unboxed" - this will always cause it to be unboxed.
> 
> Does that work with polymorphic functions?
> eg: cause the function to be specialised every call?

No, but you can tell it to specialise a function to a particular type
(or any finite number of types), and it will automatically use the
specialised one if available.

(You can't automatically specialise in general if you're doing
separate compilation - well, you could, but it wouldn't really be
separate compilation, it would be more like using the function as a
macro).

--KW 8-)

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