[Haskell-cafe] Is it possible to represent such polymorphism?

Ketil Malde ketil at malde.org
Mon Oct 3 12:04:07 CEST 2011


sdiyazg at sjtu.edu.cn writes:

> This has nothing to do with OOP or being imperative. It's just about types.

Of course, it's not necessarily linked to OOP, but OO languages - to the
extent they have types - tend towards ad-hoc polymorphism instead of
parametric polymorphism.  There are different trade-offs, one is the
lack of return-type overloading in C++.

-k
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