[Haskell-cafe] Haskell's overlooked object system: was OO
idioms redux
Graham Klyne
GK at ninebynine.org
Thu Oct 14 04:47:43 EDT 2004
At 22:17 13/10/04 +0200, Ralf Laemmel wrote:
>John Goerzen wrote:
>
>>One of the best features of OO programming is that of inheritance.
>>...
>
>Oleg, Keean and me have lying around a draft that adds to this
>discussion. We reconstruct OCaml's tutorial in Haskell
>The short paper version is online and under consideration for FOOL:
>http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ralf/OOHaskell/
>This work takes advantage of the HList library.
>
>I'll attach some code related to inheritance.
>So Haskell is an OOPL.
I think that's interesting as a theoretical exercise, but I don't currently
see myself using that framework in practice, in the form presented. As you
say "Simply syntactic sugar would make OOP more convenient in Haskell."
It is encouraging to see that the OO structures can be constructed within
the Haskell type system. Would it simplify your approach significantly to
focus on non-mutable objects? (In recent discussions with a colleague who
implements complex systems in Java, he has observed that their systems are
easier to understand and maintain when they elect to use non-mutable objects.)
#g
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