typeclasses without functions

[Ketil Z. Malde]

"Cagdas Ozgenc" <co19@cornell.edu> writes:

> class NewClass a where
>     myTT :: [a]

> It seems to be a valid Haskell construct, but I do not comprehend the
> semantics of it.

Perhaps I'm entirely off base here, but members of the class needs
(relatively, you can leave it undefined, of course) to declare a list
named myTT.

        instance NewClass Integer where
                myTT = [4, 360, 7, -20]

Not much different from declaring a function (what's the difference,
anyway? :-) or a constant:

        instance CommutativeGroup Integer where
                zero = 0
                (+) = ...

-kzm
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