Re: [Haskell-cafe] pointer equality

20 Jul
2011
20 Jul
'11
5:42 p.m.
On 7/20/11 5:08 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
I would have thought that the compiler, as a matter of optimisation, could insert a check to see if (==) is comparing an object with itself. The only way I can see this breaking is with perverse instances of Eq that would return False for "f == f".
Like the instance for Double (where f = NaN)? -- Live well, ~wren
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