traceM documentation not clear (and possibly incorrect)
The code-example and the accompanying text at https://www.stackage.org/haddock/lts-9.0/base-4.9.1.0/Debug-Trace.html\#v:traceM are out of sync. Also, it's not very clear what the following line means:
Note that the application of traceM is not an action in the Applicative context, as traceIO is in the IO type.
I realised something was wrong when, during a refactor, I ended up with the equivalent of the following loop, which caused a thread to completely freeze and become unresponsive:
forever $ traceShowM "something"
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| Version | 8.0.2 |
| Type | Bug |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | normal |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
| Component | Core Libraries |
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