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

[Tobias Dammers]

As with most things "apply taste" and "apply brain"... uhm... apply.

On Nov 4, 2016 6:16 PM, "Will Yager" <will.yager at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> > On Nov 4, 2016, at 10:10, Tobias Dammers <tdammers at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > However, in the case of Ord, there is
> > little harm in defining a default instance and using more specialized
> > sorting functions that take an explicit ordering functions;
>
> I disagree. This is the purpose of newtype wrappers. There are few
> scenarios where it's syntactically more convenient to pass around a bunch
> of random functions rather than just define a newtype with the behavior you
> want. GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving makes this trivial.
>
> Will
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