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[Fergus Henderson]

On 15-May-2001, Wojciech Moczydlowski, Jr <khaliff@astercity.net> wrote:
> On 15 May 2001, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> > What should be improved compared to existing STUArray Int Double
> > and similar?
> 
> A simple standard proposal, not using ST and multiparameter type classes,
> so that it would be possible to implement it in other compilers (namely nhc),
> would be a great improvement for me.

I think multiparameter type classes or other extensions to Haskell 98 are
really needed to solve these kinds of problems in a simple and elegant way.

The right solution, IMHO, is to extend nhc and other Haskell compilers
to support multiparameter type classes, not to try to shoehorn things
that don't fit into Haskell 98.

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