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

Dominique Devriese dominique.devriese at cs.kuleuven.be
Tue Oct 4 08:08:25 CEST 2011


All,

In case anyone is interested, I just want to point out an interesting
article about the relation between Haskell type classes and C++
(overloading + concepts):

http://sms.cs.chalmers.se/publications/papers/2008-WGP.pdf

Dominique


2011/10/3 Ketil Malde <ketil at malde.org>:
> 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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