[Haskell-cafe] Detecting Cycles in Datastructures

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Tom,

Thursday, October 27, 2005, 6:46:41 PM, you wrote:

TH> In a pure language, is it possible to detect cycles in recursive data 
TH> structures?

no, but it is possible in GHC. Einar Karttunen in his "SerTH - Binary
Serialization library for Haskell" used makeStableName and
unsafeCoerce# to get number which characterize uniqness of Haskell
value


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