[Haskell-cafe] Very silly

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Andrew,

Monday, October 13, 2008, 10:51:43 PM, you wrote:

> Suffice it to say, you *can* make Haskell support arbitrary overloading
> of function names like C++ has, _if_ you abuse the type system violently
> enough. Please, won't somebody think of the children?!?

people that make critique on haskell type classes, don't take into
account that it's unlike C++ templates, implemented via run-time
dictionaries and other modules may define new instances

just imagine other module defining instance for (a->a) or
(String->String) - how your module should compile calls to `go` that
take into account these possible definitions


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com