Re: = vs -

2001-10-12 Thread Fergus Henderson
On 10-Oct-2001, D. Tweed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Mark Carroll wrote: On 10 Oct 2001, Ketil Malde wrote: (snip) function definitions. Perhaps one could have had a syntax like z a = | a == 1 - 1 | a == 2 - 3 instead,

Re: = vs -

2001-10-12 Thread Paul Hudak
Being one of the old-timers who was deeply involved in this issue, I can assure you that the decision was not made out of fear that the idea was patented, since in fact this is the first I've heard of that! (All we knew was that the language was trademarked.) If I remember correctly, the main

a newbie's question

2001-10-12 Thread Song Li
Hi, there, Could anybody explain what does this type defination mean : data xxx a = xxx (a -b) looks xxx can use itself as constructor(like tree) but change the type.. Thanks! Song ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Closed Classes

2001-10-12 Thread Eric Allen Wohlstadter
Are there any plans to add closed classes as a hugs extension? This was described in the paper: Object-Oriented Style Overloading for Haskell, Mark Shields and Simon Peyton Jones; BABEL workshop '01. Eric Wohlstadter ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing