On 20-Feb-2000, Brian Boutel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Obviously, in general, information hiding is useful. Here, the specific
> question is about instance declarations.Is there any value in being able to
> hide them?
>
> I think the answer is no, for the following reasons:
>
> 1) There
On Friday, February 18, 2000 7:17 PM, Fergus Henderson
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> It's just a question of information hiding.
> It lets you declare a type to be an instance of a public type class
> without exporting that fact (and hence exporting those methods).
>
> > In Haskell, you can h
