[Haskell-cafe] What does "1 = 2" mean in Haskell?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 6:34 PM, <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:

> If nothing else, it would be nice to have a "dead code" warning
> from the compiler about code that is certain not to be evaluated.
> "2" counts as dead code in this example.
>

I did point out that -Wall includes a warning for this earlier... and "dead
code" warnings in most compilers require optimization.

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