[Haskell-cafe] Re: General function to count list elements?

[Luke Palmer]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Achim Schneider <barsoap at web.de> wrote:

> Lennart Augustsson <lennart at augustsson.net> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Peter Verswyvelen
> > <bugfact at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > For example, suppose you have a predicate a -> Bool, and a list of
> > > these predicates [a -> Bool], but you want to remove all functions
> > > that are obviously equal in the C way from the list for
> > > optimization... Okay big hack, and one could do this already with
> > > reallyUnsafePtrEquality# I guess...
> >
> > And when the need gets big enough you pull out StablePtr and use
> > that. :)
> >
> Waaagh! Don't give him ideas, he's going to do it...


Nah, I don't think so.

I think, even after all this mess, we've been relatively clear that Eq is
how you do it.

Luke
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