Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] confusion about 'instance'....

2008-01-10 Thread Jonathan Cast
On 10 Jan 2008, at 6:04 AM, Nicholls, Mark wrote: -Original Message- From: Bulat Ziganshin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 January 2008 13:36 To: Nicholls, Mark Cc: Luke Palmer; haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] confusion about 'instance' Hello Mark, Thur

RE: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] confusion about 'instance'....

2008-01-10 Thread Nicholls, Mark
g > Subject: Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] confusion about 'instance' > > On Jan 10, 2008 2:04 PM, Nicholls, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can translate OO into mathematical logic pretty easily, I was trying > > to do the same thing (informally of cours

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] confusion about 'instance'....

2008-01-10 Thread Luke Palmer
On Jan 10, 2008 2:04 PM, Nicholls, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can translate OO into mathematical logic pretty easily, I was trying > to do the same thing (informally of course) with Haskellbut things > are not quite what they appearnot because of some OO hang up (which > I probably

RE: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] confusion about 'instance'....

2008-01-10 Thread Nicholls, Mark
> -Original Message- > From: Bulat Ziganshin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 January 2008 13:36 > To: Nicholls, Mark > Cc: Luke Palmer; haskell-cafe@haskell.org > Subject: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] confusion about 'instance' > > Hello Mark, > > Thursday, January 10, 2008, 4:25:20 PM

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] confusion about 'instance'....

2008-01-10 Thread Luke Palmer
On Jan 10, 2008 1:36 PM, Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Mark, > > Thursday, January 10, 2008, 4:25:20 PM, you wrote: > > "instance Num a => A a" > > > Mean the same thing as > > > "instance A (forall a.Num a=>a)" > > programmers going from OOP world always forget that classes in