[Haskell-cafe] Type vs TypeClass duality

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 09:39:18 EDT 2007


Hello Luke,

Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 12:42:19 PM, you wrote:

> of me whining about Haskell's "lack" of OO features.  How are you
> supposed to design your programs modularly if you can't have a
> type-agnostic list?

> But it doesn't bug me anymore.  I can't really say why.

i tink because it's very easy to pass any required function together
with the data. OOP classes is just fixed way to do this while FP is
lower-level, more flexible tool. look at
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/OOP_vs_type_classes 


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com



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