[Haskell-cafe] Type classes vr.s functions

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Dec 20, at 20:20, Brian Hurt wrote:
> class Fooable a where
>    toFoo :: a -> Foo
> or I can simply have all the functions which need a toFoo take an  
> extra
> agrument.  Performance really isn't that important here, so it's  
> really
> a matter of style- which approach would people prefer in this case?


A third possibility is to use the simple Reader monad ((->) r).

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