On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, David House wrote:

> How about we drop the idea of an auxilary cond function, and instead
> just use a Boolean typeclass?
> 
> class Boolean b where
> isTrue :: b -> Bool
> isFalse :: b -> Bool

I suspect that then the Int instance for Boolean will quickly arise,
 http://repetae.net/john/recent/out/Boolean.html
  which flood us with (if 2+3 then "true" else "false"). This would take
us a lot of type safety.
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