[m-dev.] Foreign type compare and unification

[Fergus Henderson]

On 14-May-2002, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> IMHO the typeclass approach with the deriving annotation from Haskell seems
> the most elegant approach to me.

Haskell's "deriving" annotation has the drawback that the language
has a fixed list of classes for which you are allowed to write "deriving".
The mechanism is not extensible.

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