[Haskell-cafe] Equality Contstraint?

[Proclivis]

Thanks, is there a recommended tutorial that walks through the type signatures of Arrow and sample implementations, and use in practice? Where the newbie reading it may need more hand holding.

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> On May 14, 2015, at 7:26 PM, Alexey Shmalko <rasen.dubi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Michael,
> 
> It's irrefutable pattern - the pattern that matches lazily. You can get more info here [1].
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Alexey Shmalko
> 
> [1]: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Laziness#Lazy_pattern_matching
> 
>> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 4:17 AM Michael Jones <mike at proclivis.com> wrote:
>> I am poking around in Arrow to understand it better. There is the following definition:
>> 
>>     second :: a b c -> a (d,b) (d,c)
>>     second f = arr swap >>> first f >>> arr swap
>>       where
>>         swap :: (x,y) -> (y,x)
>>         swap ~(x,y) = (y,x)
>> 
>> Can someone explain what the ~ is? Searching the net resulted in frustration.
>> 
>> I kind of think it is some kind of equality constraint but can’t find documentation. Perhaps if I knew what it was called I might succeed in finding something. If it is an equality constraint, please provide a reference if you have one. I did not find anything in a search including GHC, etc.
>> 
>> Thanks
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