Re: [Haskell-cafe] Very silly

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

people that make critique on haskell type classes, don't take into account that it's unlike C++ templates, implemented via run-time dictionaries and other modules may define new instances

Personally, I have no clue how C++ templates work [yet]. (As in, I'm learning C++, but I haven't got to that chapter yet.) Some guy told me that templates are "the best feature in the language", and proceeded to show me a huge chunk of highly complex-looking code which is approximately equivilent to join :: Array x -> Array x -> Array x I was unimpressed. Actually, that's a lie. I was impressed that such a low-level language could manage even that much abstraction. But I still prefer the Haskell way...