i am curious: for people learning Haskell after learning other PLs, are newtypes weird? difficult? is it hard to distinguish when you'd want a newtype vs a type alias* vs a data declaration?
* n.b. you probably don't want a type alias, what are you doing
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Oh it confused the shit out of me. Still does. Feels like something the compiler should figure out behind the scenes. rust does this.
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Yeah - why on earth can't the compiler optimise the layout of a single-variant data declaration... it's quite odd.