Re: [Haskell-cafe] The votes are in!

and that baby eating is an acceptable part of Haskell optimization

Actually, yes. It's usually best used like this: data Foo = Bar {-# UNPACK #-} {-# EAT BABY #-} !Int On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Creighton Hogg wrote:

2009/3/24 John Van Enk :

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Is this the part where all the pundits come out and talk about how Jeff isn't a citizen, eats babies, and wants to turn Haskell into an imperative language?

Well given the fact that Haskell has been called the world's best imperative language, that we have a multinational community, and that baby eating is an acceptable part of Haskell optimization* I think he'll fit in just fine.

* Don Stewart might have a blog post about this, but I'm too lazy to look it up.

-- /jve