[Haskell-cafe] Lisp like symbols in haskell

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Michael,

Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 11:48:09 AM, you wrote:

> 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.

you could intern IO usage with unsafePerformIO. it's implemented in
GHC sources, afair it's FastString type or so


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