[Haskell-cafe] Implicit newtype unwrapping

Tony Morris tonymorris at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 19:19:52 EST 2009


Isn't that the point of type-classes?

Martijn van Steenbergen wrote:
> So here's a totally wild idea Sjoerd and I came up with.
>
> What if newtypes were unwrapped implicitly?
>
> What advantages and disadvantages would it have?
> In what cases would this lead to ambiguous code?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martijn.
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