[m-dev.] subtyping proposal (repost)

Peter Ross petdr at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Thu Feb 10 09:53:13 AEDT 2000


On 09-Feb-2000, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 	
> Counter-Rationale:
> 
> 	We already have one mechanism for subtypes/inheritence,
> 	namely type classes; do we need another one?
> 

I don't think that this counter rationale, holds much water as all this
is syntactic sugar (mainly) for something that can already be done.

So it has my vote of support.

Pete
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
mercury-developers mailing list
Post messages to:       mercury-developers at cs.mu.oz.au
Administrative Queries: owner-mercury-developers at cs.mu.oz.au
Subscriptions:          mercury-developers-request at cs.mu.oz.au
--------------------------------------------------------------------------



More information about the developers mailing list