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List:       haskell
Subject:    RE: punning in GHC?
From:       "Simon Peyton-Jones" <simonpj () microsoft ! com>
Date:       2001-12-28 10:28:42
Message-ID: 1113DDB24D4A2841951BFDF86665EE193746A5 () RED-MSG-10 ! redmond ! corp ! microsoft ! com
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Punning was removed from Haskell some while ago, 
I believe when Haskell 98 was fixed in Feb 1999.
See the Preface section 0.4.1

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Iavor S. Diatchki [mailto:diatchki@cse.ogi.edu] 
| Sent: 26 December 2001 18:55
| To: haskell@haskell.org
| Subject: punning in GHC?
| 
| 
| hi there,
| 
| i just discovered that GHC does not support punning with the 
| -fglasgow-exts 
| option.  is there another flag to turn this on or has it been 
| completely 
| removed?  if so could we have it back - i really like the feature (in 
| patterns anyways) and use it (hugs -98 supports it).  i don't 
| particularly 
| care that it is not in haskell 98 as i rarely write haskell 
| 98 programs. 
| 
| by the way before posting this i did a search on "punning" 
| through the 
| mailing list archive to see if someone asked this already.  i 
| couldnt find 
| anything but it seems that since 1997 there were 7 posts on 
| "punning" and 
| all of them seemed to agree that it was a useful feature, so 
| why was it 
| removed?  
| 
| bye
| iavor
| 
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