Re:

1995-09-19 Thread richard
Jules Gilbert writes: Huh? I don't know what this letter of yours is in response to. I have been getting funny misdirected e-mail recently so if you are answering something that appears to come from me I would be interested to see the details. Richard Platek

Re: Haskell 1.3 (newtype)

1995-09-19 Thread wadler
Sebastian suggests using some syntax other than pattern matching to express the isomorphism involved in a newtype. I can't see any advantage in this. Further, Simon PJ claims that if someone has written data Age = Age Int foo (Age n) = (n, Age (n+1)) that we want to be able to