[Haskell-cafe] class default method proposal

[Ross Paterson]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 04:26:52PM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Duncan Coutts wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 07:07 -0800, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
>>> This is almost exactly the
>>> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Class_system_extension_proposal; that
>>> page has some discussion of implementation issues.
>>
>> Oh yes, so it is. Did this proposal get discussed on any mailing list?
>> I'd like to see what people thought. Was there any conclusion about
>> feasibility?
>
> Ross proposed this on the libraries list in 2005:
>
> http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/libraries/2005-March/003494.html

and again in 2003:

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2003-July/004654.html