On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:15 PM, John Lato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you advocating introducing existential types to beginning > Haskellers? I think something with the scary name "existential > quantification" would greatly increase the head'splodin' on the > learnin' slope. Certainly there's a place for them, but I wouldn't > want to see new Haskell programmers habitually approach problems with > a "first create a type class, then make an existential wrapper" > mentality. Which is exactly what I fear is the current situation.
I don't think this is the current situation at all. For one, the beginning Haskellers do _not_ learn about existential types. Yours, Alexey Romanov _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
