[Haskell-cafe] Interesting Thread on OO Usefulness (scala mailing list)

[Mads Lindstrøm]

Hi

Bulat Ziganshin wrote: 
> Hello Paolo,
> 
> Monday, May 4, 2009, 2:05:44 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > Martin Odersky advocates the OO features of the scala language
> > proposing an interesting problem where the OO approach seams
> > valuable.
> 
> i know two problems in Haskell/GHC that require OO-loke features -
> extensible exceptions and GUI widget types hierarchy

Yes, type hierarchies require OO.

But, do we really need to represent different widget-types in a
hierarchy?

An alternative to a big hierarchy would be to let different widget-types
implement different type classes. We could have type classes like
MouseEvents, KeyboardEvents, Activated, ...


/Mads Lindstrøm
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