give equal rights to types and classes! :)
Wolfgang Jeltsch
wolfgang at jeltsch.net
Thu Feb 2 18:22:17 EST 2006
Am Dienstag, 31. Januar 2006 15:16 schrieb Bulat Ziganshin:
> [...]
> 1) significantly simplifies declarations using typeclasses. i
> was seriously bitten by those huge declarations, and think that
> simplification in this area will lead to much wider use of type
> classes by the ordibary users (like me :) .
"Simple" doesn't necessarily mean "small". In my opinion, your smaller type
declarations are confusing since they mix up classes and types. Classes and
types are two totally different things. A class corresponds to a set of
types, not to a single type, and a class has methods which a type has not.
> [...]
Best wishes,
Wolfgang
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