Keean Schupke wrote:
Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote:
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Just a small comment on the Wiki page... it says
"Several real-life examples of pure haskell code which needs fast global variables to either be implemented efficiently or statically guarantee their invariants are given in http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/haskell/2004-November/014929.html"
I don't know if this post was meant specifically for me, but in any case I didn't write the sentence quoted above. Other people have already added material to my original wiki page, and I encourage you to do the same if you disagree with what's there right now. To everyone who's posted in this thread: I think you're misunderstanding what I meant by the phrase "on the wiki". :-) My hope was/is that this whole debate /moves/ to the wiki exclusively. My impression is that the mailing-list debate has made no progress for some time (weeks) and almost all of the traffic now consists of weekly or daily repetitions of the same old points and counterpoints. This is a sign that the time has come to move to a discussion format that doesn't require reiteration. -- Ben