[Haskell-cafe] Linking and unsafePerformIO

Claus Reinke claus.reinke at talk21.com
Tue Oct 14 11:39:38 EDT 2008


> Where do the semantics of haskell say this? How does it interact with
> fixing bugs (which means changing mathematical and universal constant
> functions--since all functions are constants)?

What semantics of haskell?-) But if there was one, it might not talk
about separate compilation (it should, though), or packages. And if
you consider cross-package inlining, separate package updates, or
dynamic linking, etc, you might want to flag all variable constants as 
{-# NOINLINE c #-}, and perhaps even switch of any CSE-style
optimizations. The usual bag of tricks for unsafePerformIO constants.

Claus



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