G'day all. On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 06:13:29PM -0500, Norman Ramsey wrote:
> In a fit of madness, I have agreed to deliver a 50-minute lecture > on type classes to an audience of undergraduate students. These > students will have seen some simple typing rules for F2 and will > have some exposure to Hindley-Milner type inference in the context > of ML. Will they have had exposure to more "traditional" OO programming? If so, it might be useful to note the difference between Haskell type classes and C++/Java/whatever classes, namely that Haskell decouples types and the interfaces that they support. The advantage is that you can extend a type with a new interface at any point, not just when you define the type. Cheers, Andrew Bromage _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
