[project @ 1998-08-24 11:05:37 by sof]

Since we're unable to deal with seq'ing over function values, comment out the Eval instance for (->)

diff --git a/ghc/lib/std/PrelBase.lhs b/ghc/lib/std/PrelBase.lhs
index ba5741b..f256122 100644 (file)
--- a/ghc/lib/std/PrelBase.lhs
+++ b/ghc/lib/std/PrelBase.lhs
@@ -674,7 +674,10 @@ data Integer       = J# Int# Int# ByteArray#
 %*********************************************************
 
 \begin{code}
-instance Eval (a -> b) 
+-- The current implementation of seq# cannot handle function types,
+-- so we leave this instance out rather than make false promises.
+--
+-- instance Eval (a -> b) 
 
 instance  Show (a -> b)  where
     showsPrec p f  =  showString "<<function>>"