TDNR without new operators or syntax changes

[Jeremy]

Henning Thielemann wrote
> I know people are unhappy with Haskell's records and module system, but I 
> still think that's because these language features are not used properly. 
> Type classes are the tool to write generic code and reduce combinatoric 
> explosion of functions and modules are a way to collect functions per 
> type. Following this principle you give function names that make sense 
> together with the module name like File.write or Channel.write. Then there 
> is no need for the compiler to disambiguate unqualified identifiers and 
> you keep the type and the module issues separated.

The issue is with importing third-party modules, where you can't combine
them into sensible type classes without writing you own abstraction layer.
And in some cases, the similarities are in name only, so type classes
wouldn't work in any case.



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