Re: View on true ad-hoc overloading.

[Olaf Chitil]

> 1) Allowing operational parameters to be used.

Sorry, I don't know what you mean by `operational parameters'.

> 2) Allow record names to be reused.  Most langauges have a special
> syntak for record names but haskell does not.  Record names are just
> treated as selector functions.

Yes, that's very useful. And the TREX extension (extensible records) of Hugs
permits you to do that and much more.

> 3) Allow really really clean systax for functions with compicated
> parameters.  Try doing this within current haskell.
> 
>   array (range 1 to 10) ...
>   array (range 1 to 10 skip 2) ...
>   array (range 1 to 100 factor 2) ...

Reuse the existing list functions:

        array [1..10]
        array [1,3..10]
        array (takeWhile (<=100) (iterate (*2) 1))

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