On 04-Nov-1998, Claus Reinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >seems like another reason to advocate ad hoc polymorphism
> >(allow a name to denote several things, as long as they have
> >different types).
>
> How much ``ad hoc'' would you like? Hugs 1.3c [March 1998 p1]
> accepts the following w
> I am writing code that would like to use the word "product" as a field
> selector for a Product (object representing something for sale).
> Unfortunately, it can't easily use "product" because the prelude claims
> the word for multiplication.
seems like another reason to advocate ad hoc polym
> I would like to lobby to move sum and product to the list library.
> Or, to rename them listSum, listProduct.
> (so that a user can use the names sum and product for
> whatever is their
> primary data structure e.g. tree)
As someone said, I think 'hiding' is what you want.
Your suggestion is q
