On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 05:27:43PM +0100, MR K P SCHUPKE wrote:

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I wasn't talking about _any_ notion of ordering of instance heads; I said that prioritising instance _declarations_ themselves, explicitly, by 'name' would suffice.

How does that help... if you name the instances differently are they not just ordinary functions, as they would no longer be overloaded?

I thought I expounded on that, too. If there were a facility to 'name' (in a general sense, not as in the function namespace) instance declarations, it'd facilitate (by way of some further, hypothetical language extension) specifying _explicitly_ which declarations should be construed as overriding which others, when they would otherwise be seen to clash.