Re: [Haskell-cafe] Efficient object identity (aka symbols as data)

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Gregory Collins wrote:

Based on the description it looks like you could be looking for:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/simple-atom

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Coincidentally, I put up a question at stackoverflow for this just yesterday - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6164260/why-doesnt-haskell-have-symbols-a... . Why doesn't Haskell have built in syntactic sugar for atoms? -- Anupam