On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 14:56, Andrew Coppin <[email protected]> wrote: > My understanding is that if you have a constructor with no fields, it gets > allocated as a compile-time constant. In other words, "C" is just a pointer > to a static data structure somewhere in the program binary, and (==) > effectively becomes pointer equity.
When used as a general function, at least; my understanding is that it's usually reduced to an integer tag (and that this is relied on to do fast conversions internally) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
