[mercury-users] network programming

[Thomas Charles CONWAY]

Peter Schachte, you write:
> 
> Now that Mercury supports type classes, how about having input_stream
> and output_stream type classes, and have bidirectional_stream be
> instances of both?  This also has the very pleasant advantage of
> allowing users to invent their own kinds of streams.  And the other
> pleasant advantage of having the Mercury library actually *use* type
> classes.
> 

Using typeclasses is certainly something worth doing once we have a
debugger that will work on them. :-)

Thomas
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