[Haskell] Semantics of Haskell

[Till Mossakowski]

My statement was just:
There are several papers on the semantics of Haskell, but none of these papers
treats recursive datatypes. I am looking for a treatment of the semantics of
recursive datatypes in Haskell, preferably by translation to known meta-languages
like FPC or system F.

Till

Keean Schupke wrote:
> 
>> When I looked through several papers about Haskell semantics, I found 
>> that
>> recursive datatypes have been omitted.
> 
> 
> I believe fairly strong reasons have been given why this would be a bad 
> thing, and
> would result in problems for type-inference. Haskell has iso-revursive 
> types, which if
> defined using the 'newtype' directive should have no run-time cost.
> 
> Keean.


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