[Haskell-cafe] MonadLib usage

Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Sun Jul 18 15:04:44 EDT 2010


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On 7/18/10 09:27 , Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> When discussing a similar issue with Manuel Chakravarty, he convinced me
> that cunning newtype deriving is actually rather bad in practice and
> shouldn't be used as there's a lack of proofs or some such (I can't
> remember the arguments, but I remember being convinced by them :p).

It's worse than lack of proofs; it demonstrably produces bad code in a
number of situations.

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