[Haskell-cafe] Re: Lisp like symbols in haskell

Vladimir Zlatanov wrote:

I think stable names can be used where symbols are used in scheme. I think there are better alternatives for different use cases in haskell.

For example, symbols are often used to tag values - haskell has pattern matching on constructors.

Here is a link: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/System-Mem-Stable... Cheers Ben