[Haskell-cafe] Hiding side effects in a data structure

[Jules Bean]

Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> Good idea.  GHC uses it
>         http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/compiler/basicTypes/UniqSupply.lhs
> 
> Lennart Augustsson and friends invented it
> @techreport{Augustsson92a,

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You know what would be really nice? A summary of "here are all the 
really cool tricks we use in the bowels of GHC and its core libraries". 
Like a GHC code-review for the interested haskell programmer.

Maybe an introductory task for an intern who's working on ghc internals? ;)

Jules