[Haskell-cafe] Cleaning up stable names?

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Tue Sep 1 19:25:14 EDT 2009


On Sep 1, 2009, at 14:57 , Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
> In .NET it is possible to assign an identifier to an object, and that
> identifier will always be the same for the same object, no matter
> where to garbage collectors moves the object in memory. For Haskell,
> at first sight it would feel natural to have something like that too.


Hm. I'd think such names would have to live in a monad (which then  
leads you to either Reader or ST, I think).

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