[Haskell-cafe] Re: OOP'er with (hopefully) trivial questions.....

2007-12-17 Thread Peter Hercek
Luke Palmer wrote: There was a thread about this recently. In any case, if you load the code interpreted (which happens if there is no .o or .hi file of the module lying around), then you can look inside all you want. But if it loads compiled, then you only have access to the exported symbols.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: OOP'er with (hopefully) trivial questions.....

2007-12-17 Thread Luke Palmer
There was a thread about this recently. In any case, if you load the code interpreted (which happens if there is no .o or .hi file of the module lying around), then you can look inside all you want. But if it loads compiled, then you only have access to the exported symbols. The reason is becaus

[Haskell-cafe] Re: OOP'er with (hopefully) trivial questions.....

2007-12-17 Thread Peter Hercek
Thomas Davie wrote: Take a look at the Typable class. Although, pretty much any code that you can compile can be loaded into ghci without modification, and that's by far the easier way of finding the types of things. Is there a way to make ghci to know also the symbols which are not exported?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: OOP'er with (hopefully) trivial questions.....

2007-12-17 Thread David Menendez
On Dec 17, 2007 8:18 AM, Nicholls, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The approach is deliberate...but I accept may be harder than it needs to > be...I'm interested in Haskell because of the alleged power/formality of > it's type system against the relatively weakness of OO ones...the irony > at th

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: OOP'er with (hopefully) trivial questions.....

2007-12-17 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
On Dec 17, 2007 1:18 PM, Nicholls, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not really with this... > > The open case (as in OO) seems to be more like the Haskell class > construct, i.e. if new types declare themselves to be members of a class > then they must satisfy certain constaintsI can then spec

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Re: OOP'er with (hopefully) trivial questions.....

2007-12-17 Thread Bayley, Alistair
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicholls, Mark > > The open case (as in OO) seems to be more like the Haskell class > construct, i.e. if new types declare themselves to be members > of a class > then they must satisfy certain constaintsI can then > specify

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Re: OOP'er with (hopefully) trivial questions.....

2007-12-17 Thread Nicholls, Mark
are unpleasantly tangled. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of apfelmus Sent: 17 December 2007 12:34 To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Re: OOP'er with (hopefully) trivial questions. Nicholls, Mark wrote: > > data Shape = C

[Haskell-cafe] Re: OOP'er with (hopefully) trivial questions.....

2007-12-17 Thread apfelmus
Nicholls, Mark wrote: data Shape = Circle Int | Rectangle Int Int | Square Int Isn't this now "closed"...i.e. the statement is effectively defining that shape is this and only ever thisi.e. can I in another module add new "types" of Shape? Yes, but in most case