[Haskell-cafe] Re: Rewrite class with fundeps in pure h98?

[apfelmus]

Darrin Thompson wrote:
> I thought that I should be able to write something like the toHtml
> function below with pure H98, but when I went to write it I ended up
> needing fundeps. Is there a way to express this without using any
> extensions?
> 
> The idea was to take a remotely Dom-like tree and flatten it into a
> string, but not require any particular string type.
> 
> data (IsString s, Monoid s) => Dom s =
>     Element s [Attr s] [Dom s] |
>     Text s
> 
> data (IsString s, Monoid s) => Attr s = Attr s s
> 
> class (Monoid s, IsString s) => HTML d s | d -> s where
>     toHtml :: d -> s
> 
> instance (Monoid s, IsString s) => HTML (Dom s) s where
> 
> instance (Monoid s, IsString s) => HTML (Attr s) s where

The H98 way is to make a class for type constructors:

   class HTML d where
     toHTML :: (Monoid s, IsString s) => d s -> s

   instance HTML Dom where ...

   instance HTML Attr where ...


Btw, naming the class "HTML" is feels wrong, something like Serialize is 
probably a better fit.


Regards,
apfelmus