[Haskell-cafe] overloaded list literals?

Sebastian Fischer sebf at informatik.uni-kiel.de
Mon Sep 6 08:30:53 EDT 2010


On Sep 6, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Stefan Holdermans wrote:

> In general, it is kind of unfortunate that type classes and type  
> constructors share a namespace, even though there is no way to ever  
> mix them up.

Class and type names mix in im- and export lists. IIRC, this is the  
reason for putting them in a common name space.


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