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Re:Porffor: A from-scratch ahead-of-time JS engine by IsTom on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @10:22AM (#41119420)
I'm a little behind times on Haskell (haven't used it for some years) – there always were extensions that made it unsound, but the core language was pretty solid.
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Re:Porffor: A from-scratch ahead-of-time JS engine by g15jv2dp on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @10:39AM (#41119594)
Look at the last example in there: https://counterexamples.org/polymorphic-references.html
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Re:Porffor: A from-scratch ahead-of-time JS engine by IsTom on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @04:22PM (#41123047)
Well, it does use unsafePerformIO. It's not particularly horrible most of the time, but in this case it obviously is.
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