[Haskell-cafe] Equality Question

[Thomas Hartman]

not quite the same issue, but you might be interested by 

http://people.cs.uu.nl/stefan/blog/00012.html which notes: 

Prelude> let apply  = \f x -> f x

Prelude> let apply' = \f   -> f

Prelude> apply  undefined `seq` ()
()

Prelude> apply' undefined `seq` ()
*** Exception: Prelude.undefined

mulling this over helped me think about functions that were similar but 
had different numbers of params. (the first only takes a function as its 
first arg, the second, which I believe is the same as "id" takes 
anything.)

t.





PR Stanley <prstanley at ntlworld.com> 
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Hi
is const = id?
const 'x' 'y'
'x'
id 'x'
'x'

Cheers,
Paul

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