data vs. newtype, abstractly

[Fergus Henderson]

On 09-Mar-2003, Hal Daume III <hdaume@ISI.EDU> wrote:
> well, yes, but if you export:
> 
> mkN :: Int -> N
> mkD :: Int -> D
> 
> or something like that, then they'll still bea ble to tell the difference,
> right?

Not necessarily.  For example mkD could be defined as

	mkD x = x `seq` D x

in which case I think it would behave exactly the same as mkN.

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