defaults

[Josef Svenningsson]

On 11/20/06, Malcolm Wallace <Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:
> Well, for one thing I don't like the idea of a "list" of potential
> defaults.  My suggestion is that there should be a single default type
> per class.  If more than one class is involved, then either their
> defaults should agree, or only one of them in fact declares a default.
>
> I claim that this would be sufficient for every extant use case.  But I
> would quite like to have some evidence to back up this claim!  If anyone
> actually uses explicit defaults in their programs, I would be interested
> in seeing some real data on this.  Feel free to submit such example
> decls to my email address.  I suspect that almost no-one uses defaults
> except for the original motivating case of literal numbers.  If so, then
> even quite a big change in this area would hurt very few people, provided it
> was backward compatible with the literal number thing.
>
Ah, another fine opportunity to use Google Code Search. And even more
so now that it supports Haskell code!
http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%5Edefault%5C+%3F%5C%28+lang%3Ahaskell&btnG=Search

Cheers,

Josef