On 2008 Sep 8, at 21:00, Timothy Goddard wrote:
I am not a mathematician, I can't prove it, but I can't think of circumstances where I would need to put mutable references in a data structure except where the language and compiler can't handle immutable structures efficiently.
The status registers of memory-mapped devices come to mind. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
