[Haskell-cafe] Overloading

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Carlos Camarao <carlos.camarao at gmail.com>wrote:

> Sorry, I think my sentence:
>     "To define (+) as an overloaded operator in Haskell,
>       you have to define and use a type class."
> is not quite correct.  I meant that to define any operator in Haskell you
> have to
> have a type class defined with that operator as member.
>

What? An operator is just an infix function, taken from the set of symbols.
Any function can be an operator (and is, via `func` syntax). No typeclass
is required to define a random operator.

What did you really mean to say there?

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