On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Brad Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the next C++ standard, type checking capabilities are being added to > templates---"concepts" specify a set of operations a templated type must > support. See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x#Concepts>. Seems > somewhat similar to Haskell typeclasses to me, but perhaps the similarity is > merely superficial. :-)
A professor of mine, Jeremy Siek, was a major proponent of concepts on the design committee. If I recall correctly, he mentioned Haskell typeclasses as a direct inspiration. Incidentally, Concepts will flaunt more features than typeclasses to CEOs everywhere because C++ does not have inference to worry about (and already has an undecidable compile time, so what would it have to lose?). Luke _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
