On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:31 PM, c8h10n4o2 <asaferibei...@ymail.com> wrote:
> > What does # mean in this code ? (from Data.List) > > It's a "magic hash" denoting here on the one hand unboxed machine ints (0#) and on the other the constructor wrapping such a raw machine int to a Haskell boxed Int (I#). GHC uses the magic hash to mark raw unboxed stuff (which you'll rarely need to use). In the libraries, sometimes using the raw machine data types (Int#, Word#, Double#, Float# and a few more) is needed for better performance.
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