Hello Taral,

Monday, August 14, 2006, 3:34:29 PM, you wrote:

> On 8/14/06, Jon Fairbairn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> of course, there's no reason to do that, but what I'm
>> proposing is that we allow default instance declarations in
>> class declarations in much the same way as default methods:

> I just realized that default superclass methods have a small problem:

> module A contains instance Monad []
> module B contains instance Functor []
> module C imports A and B.

> Do we complain about a duplicate instance declarations?

yes. after all, this is just syntax sugar of giving both declarations:

instance Monad [] where
  fmap = map
  return = (:[])

is equivalent to

instance Functor [] where
  fmap = map

instance Monad [] where
  return = (:[])


-- 
Best regards,
 Bulat                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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