[mercury-users] overlapping instance declarations

[Fergus Henderson]

On 08-Aug-2000, Michael Day <mcda at students.cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
> 
> <interesting commentary on type class semantics>
> 
> > This is a very direct, very simple way of specifying the declarative
> > and operational semantics of code using type classes.
> 
> Must the semantics of type classes be specified in a way that does not
> involve transformation...?

That's not an absolute requirement.  But it's certainly a desirable
quality.

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