Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cleaning up stable names?

On Sep 1, 2009, at 14:57 , Peter Verswyvelen wrote:

In .NET it is possible to assign an identifier to an object, and that identifier will always be the same for the same object, no matter where to garbage collectors moves the object in memory. For Haskell, at first sight it would feel natural to have something like that too.

Hm. I'd think such names would have to live in a monad (which then leads you to either Reader or ST, I think). -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH