The quotes are in my message, not part of the thing being quoted. E.g. 'What does "+" mean between two numbers?' On 4/5/2014 10:20 AM, Emanuel Koczwara wrote:

Hi,

Dnia 2014-04-05, sob o godzinie 10:13 -0500, John M. Dlugosz pisze:

...

The sources I've learned about thus far are not helping me with this one. What's "(# #)"? Haskell is search-hostile.

Can you provide some context? It looks like ordinary string

"(# #)" :: String

or

"(# #)" :: [Char]

Emanuel

On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Christopher Allen wrote:

The user meant unboxed tuples, not a literal string. Try not to give the questioner the benefit of the doubt and search for a better answer than, "there's quotes, it must be a string rather than them trying to contain the syntax they want to express!"

Hey, we're all here for the learning, and I for one am always discombobulated on discovering how much English I have left to learn. I think Emmanuel was perplexed and understood the question as best as he could. John, on the other hand, could probably have followed the question about the curious brackets by supplying context e.g. "And I found it here like this (# Int, Int #)." And everyone, (me especially!), please use the mailing list wisely to maintain good vibes. -- Kim-Ee

Hi,

Since Emanuel was confused by my meta-quoting of syntax in prose, is there some (other) standard that's used in this mailing list when using plain text without markup?

My response to your question was to impulsive, sorry about that. Regards, Emanuel

On 4/5/2014 10:26 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 11:13 AM, John M. Dlugosz mailto:ngnr63q02@sneakemail.com> wrote:

The sources I've learned about thus far are not helping me with this one. What's "(# #)"? Haskell is search-hostile.

http://symbolhound.com :p

Hmm, I tried symbolhound, and only found pseudocode and parenthetical remarks that happened to begin with a #, or bullet points.

It's an unboxed tuple, a type that is used internally (anything named with a # is GHC internals). You can't work with it normally (you need an extension to use the MagicHash), and it has a number of restrictions since most things require a constructor but an unboxed tuple doesn't have one.

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