[Haskell-cafe] [Newbie] Quest for inheritance

[Ralf Lammel]

> On 6/6/05, Gracjan Polak <gracjan at acchsh.com> wrote:
> > If you stick to single inheritance there is other way to simulate OO in
> > Haskell. Look for "phantom types". Whole wxHaskell (for example) is
> > based on this concept.
> 
> I heard about them indeed but barely found clear explanations of it.
> Any useful pointer you're aware of maybe ?
> 
> Cédric

Hi Cedric,

See Section 7.3 of the latest revision of "Haskell's overlooked object system". There are pointers and explanations. This discussion also
clarifies that the phantom approach is tailored for foreign library
and component import (but it can be generalized and has been indeed,
by Burton in a paper from 1990). 

Regards,
Ralf