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Specializing values in a functional language

Assume a Haskell-like language. Say you have a value of an unknown (abstract) type, but you know it is either an integer, a string, or a tree node.

Are there (/have there been) extensions to Haskell that you can safely inspect and specialize the type of that given value?

By marco at 2008-09-23 12:55 | LtU Forum | 8 comments | other blogs | 4946 reads