[Haskell-cafe] Mutually recursive modules and google protocol-buffers

[John Meacham]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:21:16PM +0100, Chris Kuklewicz wrote:
> I have reached an impasse in designing a Haskell API for the google's
> The messages in protobuf are defined in a namespace that nests in the usual
> hierarchical OO style that Java encourages.
>
> To avoid namespace conflicts, I made a hierarchy of modules.

I wonder if this is the root of your issue, OO concepts don't map
directly to haskell concepts a lot of the time. You may end up with some
very atypical haskell code if you try to copy OO designs directly. 

        John 

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