Haskell Foldable Wats

[Kosyrev Serge]

Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org> writes:
> Maybe relevant to this discussion: the rejected paper "Controlling the
> scope of instances in Haskell" submitted for the 2011 Haskell Symposium
> together with the rejecting referee reports[2]
>
>  [1]: https://www.haskell.org/definition/from12to13.html
>
>  [2]: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014-October/006876.html

Interestingly, the Review 4 states:

,----
| At a higher level, the paper did not address what could be described as
| the "philosophy" behind type classes, which were built with the intent
| of being used when there was only a single interpretation of an operator
| on a type.
`----

While this sounds intuitive to me, I have never heard it stated explicitly,
and moreso, actually being specifically intended at design level.

Is it possible to know more about this?

It does seem relevant to this discussion..

-- 
с уважениeм / respectfully,
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