[Haskell-cafe] How to check object's identity?

[Peter Verswyvelen]

Maybe you could use stable names for this:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/System-Mem-StableName.html

"Stable names are a way of performing fast (O(1)), not-quite-exact
comparison between objects. Stable names solve the following problem:
suppose you want to build a hash table with Haskell objects as keys,
but you want to use pointer equality for comparison; maybe because the
keys are large and hashing would be slow, or perhaps because the keys
are infinite in size. We can't build a hash table using the address of
the object as the key, because objects get moved around by the garbage
collector, meaning a re-hash would be necessary after every garbage
collection."

2009/1/3 Xie Hanjian <jan.h.xie at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I tried this in ghci:
>>Prelude> 1:2:[] == 1:2:[]
> True
>
> Does this mean (:) return the same object on same input, or
> (==) is not for identity checking? If the later is true, how
> can I check two object is the *same* object?
>
> Thanks
> Jan
>
> --
> jan=callcc{|jan|jan};jan.call(jan)
>
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