[Haskell-cafe] Mutable arrays

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Wed Feb 6 13:15:05 EST 2008


bf3:
> > That's a reasonable critique : its hard to enforce uniqueness, in the
> > type system in Haskell, -- I'd be interesting to see approaches that
> > avoid extending the compiler.
> 
> Isn't the compiler already "modified" in a way to deal with the RealWorld
> type that is used in the IO monad? Surely the RealWorld is unique...

Yep, its an unforgable, strict kinded value. Sometimes I find it
would be nice to have user defined versions of these guys.

-- Don


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