[Haskell-cafe] instance Monad m => Functor m

[Hans Aberg]

On 9 Apr 2008, at 17:49, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>  Also (2*5 == 7) would surprise people, if (*) is the symbol for a  
> general group operation, and we want to use it for the additive  
> group of integers.

One might resolve the "Num" binding of (+) problem by putting all  
operators into an implicit superclass:

Roughly, let T be the set of of most general types, and for each t in  
T define a mangling string s(t). Then if the operator
   <op> :: t
is defined somewhere, it is internally defined as
   class Operator_s(t)_<op> t where
     <op> :: t
Then usages of it get implicit
   class (Operator_s(t)_<op> t, ...) => <Class> where ...
and
   instance Operator_s(t)_<op> t where ...

If I now have another class using (+), it need not be derived from  
Num, as both usages are derivable from an internal
   class Operator_(+)

The mangling of the type via s(t) might be used to generate C++ style  
name overloading. It will then depend on how much ambiguity one wants  
to accept in the context.

I do not see exactly how this works with Haskell current syntax; just  
an input.

   Hans