Is the IORef or the value in the IORef your key?

2009/11/2 Patai Gergely <[email protected]>

> Hello all,
>
> I wanted to create a weak pointer with an IORef as the key and something
> else as the value, but I saw no way to do it through the API provided.
> After some experimentation I came up with the following abomination for
> a solution:
>
> myWeakRef (IORef (STRef r)) v f =
>  IO $ \s -> case mkWeak# r v f s of (# s', w #) -> (# s', Weak w #)
>
> This works perfectly when the code is compiled both with and without
> optimisations, but ghci chokes on it with an internal error. So my
> question is if I can expect this to work at least this much in the long
> run, or is it a hopelessly fragile hack?
>
> Gergely
>
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