[Haskell-cafe] Cleaning up stable names?

[Peter Verswyvelen]

A monad can surely handle this, but then this is purely for caching,
and enforcing a monad just for getting caching sounds like overkill.

Caching is something you typically add in the end, and using a monad
for that seems akward no?

Since all "objects" in Haskell are readonly, it looks line an ideal
opportunity to associate a cached object with another object without
needing to wrap a lot of code in a monad

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Brandon S. Allbery
KF8NH<allbery at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2009, at 14:57 , Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
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>> In .NET it is possible to assign an identifier to an object, and that
>> identifier will always be the same for the same object, no matter
>> where to garbage collectors moves the object in memory. For Haskell,
>> at first sight it would feel natural to have something like that too.
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> Hm. I'd think such names would have to live in a monad (which then leads you
> to either Reader or ST, I think).
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