[Haskell-cafe] Type system madness

Jonathan Cast jcast at ou.edu
Wed Jul 11 16:37:09 EDT 2007


On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> Well, Haskell defines the IO type to be abstract, so if IO and ST happen to
> be the same it's implementation dependent.

And if IO uses a RealWorld type, that's implementation dependent too.  But 
it's still useful to understand both RealWorld as used by IO and the same 
mechanism as used by ST.

Jonathan Cast
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