[Haskell] Real life examples

[Lennart Augustsson]

No, with exactly the type signatures they have I don't think
you can.  But the untyped version of them can be implemented.
And that is good enough to convince me that the beta rule is
still valid.

	-- Lennart


Josef Svenningsson wrote:
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: haskell-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:haskell-bounces at haskell.org] On
>>Behalf Of Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
>>Sent: den 25 november 2004 11:49
>>To: haskell at haskell.org
>>Subject: Re: [Haskell] Real life examples
>>
>>Lennart Augustsson <lennart at augustsson.net> writes:
>>
>>
>>>An "easy" way to prove it is to provide an equivalent implementation
>>>that uses only pure functions. As far as I remember Control.Monad.ST
>>>can be written purely. And I think the same is true for Data.Dynamic.
>>
>>I think neither of them can.
>>
> 
> I agree with Marcin. I challenge you (Lennart) to write Control.Monad.ST in
> Haskell98. I (and many others) have tried and failed. An interesting summary
> by Koen can be found here:
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2001-September/007922.html
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	/Josef
> 
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