All Monads are Functors

Taral taralx at gmail.com
Mon Aug 14 07:34:29 EDT 2006


On 8/14/06, Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> of course, there's no reason to do that, but what I'm
> proposing is that we allow default instance declarations in
> class declarations in much the same way as default methods:

I just realized that default superclass methods have a small problem:

module A contains instance Monad []
module B contains instance Functor []
module C imports A and B.

Do we complain about a duplicate instance declarations? If not, does
the use of fmap in A use the default definition, or the one from B?

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Taral <taralx at gmail.com>
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