Hi,
I have a question:
Short version: If I want to hide the implementation of a data-type
"Stack a" from the rest of the program, do I need to put its definition
in a separate file?
Long version:
I want to use a stack, and I might implement it as a list, but I want to
hide the implementation from the rest of the program. This is how I
understand abstract data type.
In "The Craft of Functional Programming", this seems to be implemented
by putting each data type into a separate module and only exporting
parts of the definitions.
In "The Haskell School of Expression", this seems not to be used at all.
In the lecture notes at
(http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~mps/courses/com2020/adts.pdf), type classes
are used for abstract data types. It seems to me that this approach does
not hide any parts of any definition, but only requires that all
instances of class stack have functions pop and push of the correct
types. I am interested in hiding parts of definitions.
In the report, I did not find any mention of a requirement to have
different modules in separate files, but I have not managed to put
several modules in the same file using ghci.
I would like to keep my small program in one literate-haskell tex-file
and still be able to hide some definitions from others.
Is this possible?
One option would of course be to write a script that separates the code
into different and then compiles the entire program.
Thanks in advance!
/ johan grönqvist
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