Hello Brian,
Friday, August 18, 2006, 8:54:08 PM, you wrote:
classes: lack of record extension mechanisms (such at that implemented
in O'Haskell) and therefore inability to reuse operation
implementation in an derived data type...
You can reuse ops in a derived data type but it involves a tremendous amount
of boilerplate. Essentially, you just use the type classes to simulate
extendable records by having a method in each class that accesses the
fixed-length record corresponding to that particular C++ class.
btw, i just found the following in HWN:
* HList updates . Oleg Kiselyov [17]announced that HList, the
library for strongly typed heterogeneous lists, records,
type-indexed products (TIP) and co-products is now accessible via
darcs, [18]here. Additionally, Oleg pointed to some new features
for HList, including a new representation for open records.
Finally, he [19]published a note on how HList supports, natively,
polymorphic variants: extensible recursive open sum datatypes,
quite similar to Polymorphic variants of OCaml. HList thus solves
the `expression problem' -- the ability to add new variants to a
datatype without changing the existing code.
17. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13905
18. http://darcs.haskell.org/HList/
19. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/13906
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