The signal-to-noise ratio with fully qualified names/operators goes
way down -- that's the need.
Go take one of your programs and fully qualify every name and every
operator. Doesn't look so pretty then, does it? And it wouldn't be
easy to read, either.
Regards,
John A. De Goes
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On Feb 13, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Henning Thielemann wrote:
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, John A. De Goes wrote:
In any case, no one has really addressed the original poster's
question: No, "name overloading" is not possible in Haskell, and
surprisingly, there are no blocking technical issues why this must
be the case.
Prefixing names with module names is good style:
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Qualified_names
Where is the need for more overloading?
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