Multi-parameter OOP

[Ashley Yakeley]

At 2001-10-19 08:02, George Russell wrote:

>a naive user (like me a month ago) might expect that this to work, so that
>toBool (WrappedA a) (WrappedB b) will return False unless a is an A1, and 
>b a B1, in which case it returns True.

I think existential types are arranged so that Haskell never needs to 
store type information in them at run-time. So you'll never be able to do 
dynamic OOP with them.

One possible extension to Haskell for dynamic OOP, which I never tire of 
suggesting, is the extensible datatype, for instance:

    module P
    data BaseType = B1 | B2 | _

    module Q
    data DerivedType = D1 | D2
    data BaseType |= BD DerivedType


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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA