[Haskell-cafe] Type Directed Name Resolution

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Fri Nov 12 15:48:57 EST 2010


On 12/11/2010 08:33 PM, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
>
> On 12 Nov 2010, at 20:21, Andrew Coppin wrote:
>> It's always puzzled me that Haskell's standard containers almost 
>> completely lack any way to use them polymorphically.
>
> On the contrary, there is the Edison package

...which sounds quite interesting, except that...

> except that almost nobody uses it.

I must confess, I've never actually looked at Edison (I had assumed it 
bit-rotted years ago), so I have no idea what it's like. I guess it's a 
kind of "if it was good, shouldn't everybody be using it by now?" logic.



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