[Haskell-cafe] Re: Overloading functions based on arguments?

[John A. De Goes]

The signal-to-noise ratio with fully qualified names/operators goes  
way down -- that's the need.

Go take one of your programs and fully qualify every name and every  
operator. Doesn't look so pretty then, does it? And it wouldn't be  
easy to read, either.

Regards,

John A. De Goes
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On Feb 13, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Henning Thielemann wrote:

>
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, John A. De Goes wrote:
>
>> In any case, no one has really addressed the original poster's  
>> question: No, "name overloading" is not possible in Haskell, and  
>> surprisingly, there are no blocking technical issues why this must  
>> be the case.
>
> Prefixing names with module names is good style:
>  http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Qualified_names
> Where is the need for more overloading?
>