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Strictness problem

    • Closed Issue created by nilsanders @trac-nilsanders 
    As requested, this is a resubmission (and update) of a
previously reported bug, to get it into the bug tracker.

The following program should output something involving
Correct:

> module Main where

> f x = case x of
>   x@True  -> \y -> x && y
>   x@False -> \y -> x && y

> main = putStrLn $ f (error "Correct") `seq` "Error"

However, whether it does so is a non-trivial function
of the GHC version and optimisation settings:

GHC version     -O2?  Correct?
------------------------------
4.08.1          No    Yes
4.08.1          Yes   No
5.04.2          No    No
5.04.2          Yes   Yes
6.0.1           _     No
6.2.2           _     No
6.4             _     No
6.4.1.20050820  _     No

All tests were run on a Solaris system.

Different fs give different behaviour, at least for
6.0.1. Try e.g.

> f x = case x of
>   True  -> id
>   False -> id
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