[Haskell-cafe] Strong duck typing / structural subtyping / type class aliases / ??? in Haskell

Alp Mestan alp at mestan.fr
Fri Sep 25 17:25:21 EDT 2009


On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Job Vranish <jvranish at gmail.com> wrote:

> Supposedly OCaml has an OO feature that does this but I haven't tried it
> out.
>

Indeed, OCaml has stuctural polymorphism, it's a wonderful feature.

*# let f myobj = myobj#foo "Hi !";;
val f : < foo : string -> 'a; .. > -> 'a = <fun>*

IIRC, there has been work on Template Haskell for structural polymorphism.

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Alp Mestan
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