Re: basAlgPropos. Why sample argument

2000-05-08 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Sun, 7 May 2000 16:13:46 +0400 (MSD), S.D.Mechveliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze: > Also what do you do with > class Foo a where weightOfType :: Int > ? In this case one solution is to have a sample argument, because Haskell does not provide more convenient way of parame

Re: basAlgPropos. Why sample argument

2000-05-07 Thread Marc van Dongen
Fergus Henderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] : > * `zero x' fits the aim of implicit dynamic domains. : : This one is much more interesting. I am not sure if I understand this but I also used zero :: a -> a to create polynopmials as opposed to a function zero :: a The application

Re: basAlgPropos. Why sample argument

2000-05-07 Thread Fergus Henderson
On 07-May-2000, S.D.Mechveliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > > Sample arguments are bad, because: > > [5 points follow] > > But they are only for snobs. That doesn't matter; we don't want to add a bad feature, regardless of who is likely

basAlgPropos. Why sample argument

2000-05-07 Thread S.D.Mechveliani
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 5 May 2000 >> Let us call for the recent basAlgPropos discussion a hacker >> any Haskell user who do not like to care of mathematics, especially, >> of its most abstract parts. >> And call a snob any user that feels it quite different.