[Haskell] PROPOSAL: class aliases

[Udo Stenzel]

Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> This does mean that you want to treat classes without methods special, doesn't 
> it?

Not quite, I'm actually not sure if I want this, I just noted that it
was possible. :)  As David Menendez pointed out, empty classes probably
aren't that useless.

Anyway, not treating empty classes specially and just making the
universal instance explicit may be enough.  Foo is declared an alias for
Bar by writing:

class Foo a => Bar a
instance Foo a => Bar a

The latter is not Haskell98, but a harmless extension.  Doing it this
way "feels better" than introducing new syntax and semantics, at least
to me.


Udo.
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