On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:35:09AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > On 11 April 2006 11:08, Ross Paterson wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:03:22AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > >> This is a rather useful extension, and as far as I can tell it > >> doesn't have a ticket yet: > >> > >> http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/libraries/2005-March/003494.html > >> > >> should I create a ticket? Is there any reason it might be hard to > >> implement? > > > > There are a range of proposals, but none of them are implemented. > > Wouldn't that rule them out for Haskell'? > > If it's not clear which is the right way to go, then yes I guess that > does rule it out. Could you summarise the proposals? If there was a > clear winner, and it was easy enough to implement, perhaps we can knock > up a prototype in time.
As I recall, this was brought up a few times during the class alias discussion and there were good technical reasons why it would be tricky to define a sane semantics for it. as in, it's harder than it first looks. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime