[Haskell-cafe] Re: (flawed?) benchmark : sort

[Adrian Hey]

Luke Palmer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:02 AM, Adrian Hey <ahey at iee.org> wrote:
>>  The report doesn't state that for all Ints, (x==y = True) implies that
>>  x=y. There's no reason to suppose the Int instance is in any way
>>  special, so do you really seriously consider the possibility that
>>  this might not hold in your Int related code?
>>
>>  if (x==y) then f x else g x y
>>
>>  might not mean the same as..
>>
>>  if (x==y) then f y else g x y
> 
> Of course not :-).  However, on what grounds am I to assume that these
> two will be semantically equivalent for instances other than Int?

Umm..Maybe the fact that you're using the == method from the Eq class,
not some Int specific isIntEqual function?

:-)

Regards
--
Adrian Hey