punning in GHC?

Malcolm Wallace Malcolm.Wallace@cs.york.ac.uk
Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:56:40 +0000


> Punning was removed from Haskell some while ago,
> I believe when Haskell 98 was fixed in Feb 1999.

Indeed.  However, due to popular demand, the feature was retained as
an extension in Hugs (turn on with the -98 option) and nhc98 (turn
on/off with the -puns/-nopuns options).

Regards,
    Malcolm