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

[John A. De Goes]

On Feb 13, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Jonathan Cast wrote:
> It breaks type inference.  I explained this at the time.  I can  
> explain
> it again:
>
>  import Data.List
>  import Data.Set
>  import Data.Map
>
>  warmFuzzyThingFirstOperation = map
>
> This gives an error currently.  Quite properly.  But if *any* use of
> `map' type-checks, with those imports, why on earth should this one
> fail?  You don't want to remove a wart from the language, you want to
> introduce one!

Umm, no, that would still give an error. See definition of "one and  
exactly one".

Regards,

John A. De Goes
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