Re: [Haskell-cafe] Overloading functions based on arguments?

class Foobar a b where foobar :: a - b - Int instance Foobar String Int where ... instance Foobar Int String where ... 2009/2/13 Daniel Kraft d...@domob.eu: Hi, I just came across a problem like this: Suppose I've got two related functions that do similar things, and I want to call them

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Overloading functions based on arguments?

If you have two functions that do two different things, then they certainly OUGHT to have different names. You can of course put the two functions in different modules. Then they do have different (qualified) names. 2009/2/13 Daniel Kraft d...@domob.eu: Hi, I just came across a problem like

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Overloading functions based on arguments?

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 13:25 +0300, Eugene Kirpichov wrote: class Foobar a b where foobar :: a - b - Int instance Foobar String Int where ... instance Foobar Int String where ... But we typically do not to this. It's ugly. Classes work nicely when there is some kind of parametrisation

[Haskell-cafe] Overloading functions based on arguments?

Hi, I just came across a problem like this: Suppose I've got two related functions that do similar things, and I want to call them the same... Like in: foobar :: String - Int - Int foobar :: Int - String - Int (Bad example, but I hope you got the point.) Is this kind of overloading

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Overloading functions based on arguments?

Daniel Kraft wrote: Hi, I just came across a problem like this: Suppose I've got two related functions that do similar things, and I want to call them the same... Like in: foobar :: String - Int - Int foobar :: Int - String - Int (Bad example, but I hope you got the point.)