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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] "OCaml gives you only monomorphic methods in classes."
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On Saturday 29 December 2007 04:31:02 Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> This seems correct for O'Caml (and SML?) but not Haskell.
> Haskell's type system is extended with type classes, which allow + and such
> to be overloaded...

Yes, that's what I said. :-)

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