Gabriel wrote: > | This overloading by namespace is usually called either ADL > | (Argument-Dependent Lookup) or Koenig Lookup (especially in C++.) > > Actually in C++, it is called "argument dependent name > lookup", and that is the way the C++ definition text calls > it. As Andy Koenig has himself pointed out, he did not invent > that rule. He mentionned it when the C++ committee was > solving a name look-up problem posed by namespaces to > operator functions. That name look-up rule was later > generalized to non-operator to cover the function-call syntax > -- which is what is most known today and referred to above. > > This ends my C++ hour on Haskell list :-)
Yeah! Get back to that dark corner where people solve real problems! ;-) /David _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
