Re: [Haskell-cafe] Overloading functions based on arguments?

Daniel Kraft wrote:

Hi,

I just came across a problem like this: Suppose I've got two related functions that do similar things, and I want to call them the same... Like in:

foobar :: String -> Int -> Int foobar :: Int -> String -> Int

(Bad example, but I hope you got the point.)

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Type_classes_are_for_reusability