[Haskell-cafe] Object oriented haskell.

Albert Y. C. Lai trebla at vex.net
Fri May 16 02:56:24 UTC 2014


On 14-05-15 03:06 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:16 PM, silvio <silvio.frischi at gmail.com
> <mailto:silvio.frischi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     you can specify the associativity using infix(l/r) expression
>
>
> Which will break almost all existing code in order to enable something
> that is dubious at best given how much . is already overloaded. And
> gains you nothing in the way of "object oriented" as cited in your
> subject line --- . is the *least* of the issues involved with OO, and is
> used in the way you want by non-OO languages.

What Wadler said. Talking too much syntax, too little semantics.


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