[Haskell-cafe] symbol type?

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:28:08PM -0700, Michael Vanier wrote:
> Is there an implementation of a symbol type in Haskell i.e. a string which 
> has a constant-time comparison operation?

Yes, I beleive GHC uses one (utils/FastString.lhs iirs)

Stefan
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