[Haskell-cafe] Re: Type classes

[Max Vasin]

>>>>> "Geest," == Geest, G van den <G.vandenGeest at students.uu.nl> writes:

Geest,> I suppose you want to define compareEntries like this:
>> compareEntries (Entry x) (Entry y) = compareEntries x y

Geest,> An option is to just implement it the following way
Geest,> (Haskell98!):

>> class DatabaseEntry e where entryLabel :: e -> String formatEntry
>> :: e -> String compareEntries :: e -> e -> Ordering
>> 
>> data Entry a = Entry a

No. I don't want that. The database parsing function returns
Map.Map String Entry but entries can of different types (and
these type vary over styles).

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WBR,
Max Vasin.