[Haskell-cafe] Hello and help request

[Graham Klyne]

At 14:50 29/07/04 +0200, enrico.santoemma at tin.it wrote:
>Are type classes different from Java classes? I think so, but I guess this
>means that one should ask different things to type classes, respect to what
>is being asked to Java classes.
>It is this difference that's unclear to me.

I made some notes about this, but they're in no sense authoritative:
   http://www.ninebynine.org/Software/Learning-Haskell-Notes.html#type-class-misuse

There was also a little discussion of these notes, starting around:
   http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/haskell/2003-December/013269.html
and subsequently transferring to Haskell-cafe.  There was some discussion 
of classes and their relation to OO style, but that seems to have been 
off-list.  Some of the comments received have been added to my notes.

#g


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