[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Propeganda

Don Stewart wrote:

You just wrote unsafeCoere# a different way:

typeOf T = typeOf (undefined :: IORef ())

Right. It's straightforward to write unsafe segfaulting code in apparently safe Haskell.

Manual Typeable deriving should probably be disabled :-)

Another ugly special-case hack. There's a better way. -- Ashley Yakeley