[Haskell-cafe] Backpack vs plain old classes and instances

[Clinton Mead]

Hi Silvio

That makes a lot of sense thanks for the reply!

Thanks,
Clinton

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 4:20 PM, Silvio Frischknecht <
silvio.frischi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> It seems similar to the modules system of ML. As I understand it, the
> main difference to Haskell type classes is that you have to specify
> instances explicitly in in this system. This means you get more control
> at the expense of more code.
>
> Have a look at this example on stackoverflow.
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/36927542/1117884
>
> Cheers
>
> Silvio
>
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