[Haskell-cafe] Encapsulation in Haskell

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Creighton Hogg wrote:

> Hi guys,
> So one of the big things in object oriented programming is 
> encapsulation, and I'm wondering how to do it properly in 
> Haskell.  How do you define new data types but minimize the 
> dependence of external packages on the exact nature of the 
> data definition?
> 

Use modules. Don't expose the constructors.

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