Makes sense. I'm not sure what a good syntactic story would be for that feature
though. Just writing down member names that aren't in the class seems to be too
brittle and error prone, and new keywords seems uglier than the current
situation.
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On Apr 28, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Doug
Not always. For example, you can't mess with the declaration
of a standard class, such as Num.
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Edward Kmett wrote:
> You can always put those helper functions in the class and then just not
> export them from the module.
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Doug M
You can always put those helper functions in the class and then just not
export them from the module.
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> Is there any strong reason why the where clause in an instance
> declaration cannot declare anything other than class
> operators? If not,
Is there any strong reason why the where clause in an instance
declaration cannot declare anything other than class
operators? If not, I suggest relaxing the restriction.
It is not unusual for declarations of class operators to
refer to special auxiliary functions. Under current rules
such functi
