[Haskell-cafe] Re: Datatypes - Haskell

[Jon Fairbairn]

"Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> writes:

> On the subject of data types, I've recently seen Haskell code using
> 	data Foo ... = Foo { ... }
> where I would have used newtype instead of data.  When is it a good
> idea to avoid newtype?

When the code was written before newtype was introduced into
the language?  Also when { ... } is not a single type.

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Jón Fairbairn                                 Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk