[Haskell-cafe] Re: Lisp like symbols in haskell

Ben Franksen ben.franksen at online.de
Tue Dec 8 16:36:25 EST 2009


Vladimir Zlatanov wrote:
> I think stable names can be used  where symbols are used in scheme. I
> think there are better alternatives for different use cases in
> haskell.
> 
> For example, symbols are often used to tag values - haskell has
> pattern matching on constructors.

Here is a link:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/System-Mem-StableName.html

Cheers
Ben



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