[Haskell-cafe] Name overloading

[Evan Laforge]

> Now, in Haskell we have type inference, which is "The Good Thing" as
> it allows to "validate" your program at compile time. Hence, the idea
> coming up to my mind is that type inference actually forbids a
> type-directed resolution of names as in C++ or Java.
>
> Is this correct?

There is a proposed extension which is not implemented but was
discussed on the list a while back, maybe you'd find this interesting:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/TypeDirectedNameResolution

Search back in the archives for TDNR and you should turn up some threads.