[Haskell-cafe] Operator #

[Daniel Fischer]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:31 PM, c8h10n4o2 <asaferibeiro4 at ymail.com> wrote:

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> What does # mean in this code ? (from Data.List)
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It's a "magic hash" denoting here on the one hand unboxed machine ints (0#)
and on the other the constructor wrapping such a raw machine int to a
Haskell boxed Int (I#). GHC uses the magic hash to mark raw unboxed stuff
(which you'll rarely need to use). In the libraries, sometimes using the raw
machine data types (Int#, Word#, Double#, Float# and a few more) is needed
for better performance.
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