[Haskell-cafe] Generics Versus Parametric Polymorphism

[Alp Mestan]

>
> Parametric polymorphism is kinda boring in Haskell -- since it's been
> there since the beginning.
>
> We tend to reserve the term "generics" for higher order, and fancier,
> polymorphism. These kinds of things:
>
>    http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html#cat:generics
>
> -- Don
>

I think he was refering to "Java Generics", this kind of things.
Java's generics are much less powerful than parametric polymorphism in
Haskell.

-- 
Alp Mestan
In charge of the C++ section on Developpez.com.
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