[Haskell-cafe] Overloading functions based on arguments?

[Henning Thielemann]

Daniel Kraft wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just came across a problem like this:  Suppose I've got two related 
> functions that do similar things, and I want to call them the same... 
> Like in:
> 
> foobar :: String -> Int -> Int
> foobar :: Int -> String -> Int
> 
> (Bad example, but I hope you got the point.)

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Type_classes_are_for_reusability