[m-dev.] Foreign type compare and unification

[Fergus Henderson]

On 21-May-2002, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 19-May-2002, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > My point is that the typeclass approach with the deriving annotation from
> > Haskell does *not* seem to be the most elegant approach to me.  Because the
> > list of such classes is fixed and not extensible, it seems rather inelegant.
> 
> I still don't see your point (nor do I agree about inextensibility
> implying inelegance but it hardly matters). 
> 
> Are you just making a comment or are you objecting to the idea that
> Mercury could use such a system on these grounds?

I think it would be better to at least investigate alternative designs
that don't have that drawback first.

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The University of Melbourne         |  of excellence is a lethal habit"
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