[Haskell-cafe] Ord (IORef a)?

[John Meacham]

would it be possible to provide an Ord instance for (IORef a)? For
things like loop detection, one may need to make many IORef comparasions
and being able to use an efficient set would be a really big win.

Since IORefs are created in the IO monad, the actual order can be
arbitrary without breaking referential transparency (as long as it
doesn't change over the lifetime of the IORef.)
        John

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