[Haskell-cafe] programming style...and type classes...

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Nicholls, Mark <nicholls.mark at vimn.com>
wrote:

> i believe there is advice to avoid typeclasses stylistically? (see haskell
> wiki on style, allegedly because it leads to creeping haskell
> extensions...overlapping instances etc)...which lead you into the "wild"
> (allegedly SPJ)
>

Typeclasses are great when used properly and for their intended purpose.
There is a tendency for new Haskellers to overuse them, or to mistake them
for OOP classes and try to use them as such (which won't work, but *will*
cause the compiler to start suggesting increasingly-far-afield extensions
as it tries to make sense of what the programmer was trying to do).

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