seq as type class method

Stefan Holdermans stefan at cs.uu.nl
Fri Nov 6 10:25:07 EST 2009


Henning,

>> I cannot tell whether *I* would find it problematic in practice.  
>> Hudak et al. write:

>> "However, the limitations of this solution soon became apparent.
>> Inspired by the Fox project at CMU, two of Hughes’s students
>> implemented a TCP/IP stack in Haskell, making heavy use of
>> polymorphism in the different layers. ...

> Yes, I think that this is the paragraph that can also be found in  
> the History of Haskell. I might add that better refactoring tools  
> could also have been a solution, right?

Agreed.

Cheers,

   Stefan


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