[Haskell-cafe] Hello and help request

enrico.santoemma at tin.it enrico.santoemma at tin.it
Thu Jul 29 11:14:29 EDT 2004


>To put it another way, they're closer to Java interfaces - though type
>classes are a more general idea, as demonstrated by the multi-parameter
>type classes supported by ghc et al. You can think of them as a predicate
>- "this type has implementations for these overloaded functions".

Ok, very clear.
This should mean that I must concentrate on data/newtype, right?
So, if I've understood well, <data> adds parameters (with pattern matching?)
and recursion to structure definition. Still right?

Enrico



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