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[Fumiaki Kinoshita]

There's a cost to __not__ adding instances as well, namely that accidental
need of the class functions (e.g. after abstraction) doesn't fit the
library.

Since there's a cost, we need to make sure there's a larger benefit before
we decide not to add them -- e.g. a hypothetical or real risk.

2016-03-09 18:12 GMT-08:00 <amindfv at gmail.com>:

> My point is that there's a cost to adding instances -- namely that
> accidental calling of the class functions (e.g. after refactoring) isn't
> caught by the compiler.
>
> Since there's a cost, we need to make sure there's a larger benefit before
> we add them -- e.g. a hypothetical or real use-case.
>
> Tom
>
>
> > El 9 mar 2016, a las 20:28, Fumiaki Kinoshita <fumiexcel at gmail.com>
> escribió:
> >
> > Thinking an instance non-practical does not imply we *never* use the
> instance. The lack of a uniquely legal instance turns out to be a problem
> at some point, maybe right now.
>
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