[Haskell] Re: Question for the haskell implementors: Arrays, unsafePerformIO, runST

[Malcolm Wallace]

John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:

> I generalized this primitive to 
> 
> drop__ :: a -> b -> b

Also known in the Prelude as "const"...

The difference is that you propose it be primitive, with the intention
that a clever compiler should not be able to bypass it by inlining its
definition and propagating the loss of the first argument outwards.

Regards,
    Malcolm