[Haskell-cafe] Roles == type classes ???

[Magnus Therning]

The way roles/traits are described in [1] (and the pages it links to)
make me think of Haskell type classes.  Am I completely off in doing
that?

/M

[1]: http://griddlenoise.blogspot.com/2007/05/traits-roles-as-alternative-to-abstract.html

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