Re: overlapping instances

2000-02-14 Thread Tom Pledger
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk writes: > [...] However in the following case there is an ambiguity that I > don't know how to resolve - overlapping instances don't solve what > they seemed to claim to solve: > > classA a where ... > class A a => B a where ... > classC a where ..

Re: overlapping instances

2000-02-14 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Thu, 10 Feb 2000 23:00:08 +0300 (MSK), S.D.Mechveliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze: > > Generally it does not fit into my mental model of a Haskell class. > > How could it be that adding an instance *constrains* what else we > > can do with a type (define an instance of another class)? > > In what

First release of Mondrian: an internet scripting language

2000-02-14 Thread Arjan van IJzendoorn
Dear functional programmers, We are proud to announce the very first release of Mondrian on Valentine's day 2000. Mondrian is a new scripting language for internet applications. Want to know more? Visit: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~afie/mondrian/ Happy Valentine's day, The Mondrian Team

RE: [wish list] Lightweight extensible records for Haskell

2000-02-14 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| > Could we please have lightweight extensible records for Haskell (as | > in the paper by (Mark|Simon Peyton) Jones in the 1999 Haskell | > Workshop). | | Seconded. | | Symmetric record catenation, as opposed to extensibility by one field | at a time, would make the Haskell even nicer for d