[Haskell-cafe] "show" for functional types

Tomasz Zielonka tomasz.zielonka at gmail.com
Sat Apr 1 13:33:53 EST 2006


On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 11:22:15AM +0100, Christopher Brown wrote:
> In haskell the following is true:
> 
> f x + g x == g x + f x

Be careful, you will get a counter-example from someone.
In this example you assume that + is commutative for all
types. I don't think that the Haskell 98 report mandates this.

One safer example would be:

    let y = f x in (y, y)    == (f x, f x)

Best regards
Tomasz


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