[Haskell-cafe] Graph Library Using Associated Types

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

Lajos Nagy:
> I understand that one of the original motivations for introducing  
> associated types to Haskell was the survey of support for generic  
> programming done by Garcia et al. where they compared the  
> implementation of the Boost Graph Library in various languages (C++,  
> Java, Haskell, ML, C#, Eiffel).  Haskell got full marks in all  
> categories, except for associated types which made the resulting  
> implementations more verbose than necessary (and exposed  
> implementation details).  Since then GHC added support for  
> associated types but I was wondering if anybody re-did the  
> experiment with the new features enabled (the original code is  
> available at: http://www.osl.iu.edu/research/comparing/).

No, we actually didn't do that.  It would be interesting, though.

Manuel

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