12 Feb
2009
12 Feb
'09
1:04 p.m.
They are not unsafe in the way unsafePerformIO is, but I regard them
as a last resort in certain situations.
Still, in those situations they are very useful.
-- Lennart
2009/2/12 Peter Verswyvelen
Haskell seems to have pretty strong support for dynamic casting using Data.Typeable and Data.Dynamic. All kinds of funky dynamic programming seems to be possible with these "hacks". Is this considered as being as bad as - say - unsafePerformIO? What kind of evil is lurking here? Cheers, Peter
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