[Haskell-cafe] Lisp like symbols in haskell

[Lyndon Maydwell]

Aren't symbols made redundant by algebraic data types?

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Michael Vanier <mvanier42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> jean-christophe mincke wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Has there already been attempts to introduce lisp like symbols in haskell?
>>
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> J-C
>>
>
> J-C,
>
> Do you mean symbols as in "interned strings with an O(1) string comparison
> method"?  I would love to have those, but I don't see an easy way to get it
> without being in the IO or ST monad.
>
> Mike
>
>
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