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    <p>I use that all the time. It is for typechecking things passed to
      C functions.</p>
    <p>Greets, Branimir.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/6/18 5:35 PM, Guru Devanla wrote:<br>
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          <div>Hello Haskell-Cafe,</div>
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          <div>I have been recently studying the XMonad code and some
            related types available in the X11 bindings library.</div>
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          <div>I came across this type: <br>
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        <div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail-keyword">newtype</span> <a
            id="gmail-t:XEvent" class="gmail-def" moz-do-not-send="true">XEvent
            = XEvent XEventPtr</a>
          <div><a id="gmail-t:XEvent" class="gmail-def"
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          <div><font size="2"><span class="gmail-keyword">type</span> <a
                id="gmail-t:XEventPtr" class="gmail-def"
                moz-do-not-send="true">XEventPtr</a> = <a
href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.10.1.0/docs/Foreign-Ptr.html#t:Ptr"
                moz-do-not-send="true">Ptr</a> <a
href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/X11-1.9/docs/Graphics-X11-Xlib-Event.html#t:XEvent"
                moz-do-not-send="true">XEvent</a></font></div>
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          <div><font size="2">Available here:  </font><br>
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          <div><a
href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/X11-1.9/docs/Graphics-X11-Xlib-Event.html#t:XEvent"
              moz-do-not-send="true">http://hackage.haskell.org/package/X11-1.9/docs/Graphics-X11-Xlib-Event.html#t:XEvent</a></div>
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          <div><font size="2">It seems that this type is circular here.
              how does one use this type? Is it possible to create a
              value out of this type? What is the use of this type?<br>
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          <div><font size="2">Please could someone help me wrap my head
              around this?<br>
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          <div><font size="2">Thanks</font></div>
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