[Haskell-cafe] Efficient object identity (aka symbols as data)

[Anupam Jain]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>wrote:

> Based on the description it looks like you could be looking for:
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>    http://hackage.haskell.org/package/simple-atom
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> G
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Coincidentally, I put up a question at stackoverflow for this just yesterday
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6164260/why-doesnt-haskell-have-symbols-a-la-ruby-atoms-a-la-erlang
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Why doesn't Haskell have built in syntactic sugar for atoms?

-- Anupam
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