[MLton] ML Workshop, sML Evolution, and CUFP trip report

Vesa Karvonen vesa.karvonen at cs.helsinki.fi
Wed Sep 27 02:47:31 PDT 2006


Quoting Andreas Rossberg <rossberg at ps.uni-sb.de>:
[...]
> One interesting point I'd add was the discussion about type classes. At 
> least to my surprise, there seemed to be broad consensus that they would 
> be a desirable feature to have, with only Dave MacQueen speaking up 
> against it. Derek's and Bob's paper would be the obvious starting point.

Interesting.  Could you (or someone else) summarize the reasons Dave MacQueen
gave for not wanting type classes?

(I'm not entirely sold on type classes either.)

-Vesa Karvonen



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