[Haskell-cafe] Re: Numeric Prelude and identifiers

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Mon Apr 6 17:53:47 EDT 2009


On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Kalman Noel wrote:

> I'm not complaining, and I'm not sure what I mean :) I may like a scheme
> where functions operating on a type or type class live in a module
> seperate from the type (class) definition, so you could import a
> specific module to get only, say, (Ring, (*), one, ...).  But that would
> be too tedious in the Haskell hierarchical module system, which is why I
> was asking about others.

It was precisely my goal to bundle the type with the functions that 
operate on it. Why do you want to separate them?


More information about the Haskell-Cafe mailing list