Re: [Haskell] Re: Question for the haskell implementors: Arrays, unsafePerformIO, runST

John Meacham <john@repetae.net> wrote:

I generalized this primitive to

drop__ :: a -> b -> b

Also known in the Prelude as "const"... The difference is that you propose it be primitive, with the intention that a clever compiler should not be able to bypass it by inlining its definition and propagating the loss of the first argument outwards. Regards, Malcolm