[mercury-users] Implementing Edison in Mercury

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

Ralph Becket wrote:

	My thought was to adopt and adapt the class hierarchy and method
	suites as the main win and then provide our own implementations,
	rather than copying whatever happens to be good in Haskell.
	
I haven't looked at the Edison interfaces in any detail, but having
read Okasaki's book cover to cover, I'd have to say he is FANTASTIC
at coming up with implementations, but I would rather not have to use
his interfaces.  As already noted, the interfaces would need fairly
major revision to suit a language which supports multiple modes and
non-determinism.

To develop a library *inspired* by Edison is a good idea.
I'm just saying let's not follow it too slavishly in *any* respect.
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