A question about run-time errors when class members are undefined

Ben Franksen ben.franksen at online.de
Wed Oct 24 08:30:21 UTC 2018


Am 08.10.2018 um 11:21 schrieb Anthony Clayden:
> I wonder how different would have been the history of Haskell if Wadler had
> not borrowed the terminology "class" and "method". Since Helium has a focus
> on Haskell learners/beginners: I wonder how much confusion we might have
> saved those coming from OOP where the terms mean something really quite
> different. We might have avoided "class" altogether; and talked of
> "overloaded function".

Similar to C++, perhaps?

Cheers
Ben



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