[Haskell-cafe] The votes are in!

John Van Enk vanenkj at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 15:41:17 EDT 2009


> and that baby eating is an acceptable part of Haskell optimization

Actually, yes. It's usually best used like this:

data Foo = Bar {-# UNPACK #-} {-# EAT BABY #-} !Int

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Creighton Hogg <wchogg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/3/24 John Van Enk <vanenkj at gmail.com>:
> > Is this the part where all the pundits come out and talk about how Jeff
> > isn't a citizen, eats babies, and wants to turn Haskell into an
> imperative
> > language?
>
> Well given the fact that Haskell has been called the world's best
> imperative language, that we have a multinational community, and that
> baby eating is an acceptable part of Haskell optimization* I think
> he'll fit in just fine.
>
> * Don Stewart might have a blog post about this, but I'm too lazy to look
> it up.
>



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/jve
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