[Haskell-cafe] Type classes
Max Vasin
max-appolo at mail.ru
Mon Mar 20 09:46:43 EST 2006
Hi!
I'm currently experimenting with a bibliography generation tool for
LaTeX. It will (if it will be finished) use BibTeX databases but
bibliography styles will be written in Haskell. I want styles to be
able to transform database entries into some style specific data type,
so I define
> class DatabaseEntry e where
> entryLabel :: e -> String
> formatEntry :: e -> String
> compareEntries :: e -> e -> Ordering
Then I define
> data Entry = forall a. (DatabaseEntry a) => Entry a
> instance DatabaseEntry Entry where
> entryLabel (Entry e) = entryLabel e
> formatEntry (Entry e) = formatEntry e
How can I define compareEntries for this instance?
--
WBR,
Max Vasin.
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