[Haskell-beginners] Function definition order and performance

Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fischer at googlemail.com
Tue Jun 7 10:59:26 CEST 2011


On Tuesday 07 June 2011, 10:33:08, Aleksandar Dimitrov wrote:
> Note that the only thing interesting here is that safeHead' got
> translated to safeHeadzq, which is… well. Cute, and nothing else.

It's z-encoding, 
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/SymbolNames

Kind of irritating when you come across a z-encoded name containing a z 
where you don't expect z-encoding.



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