Re: [Haskell-cafe] Generics Versus Parametric Polymorphism

Parametric polymorphism is kinda boring in Haskell -- since it's been there since the beginning.

We tend to reserve the term "generics" for higher order, and fancier, polymorphism. These kinds of things:

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html#cat:generics

-- Don

I think he was refering to "Java Generics", this kind of things. Java's generics are much less powerful than parametric polymorphism in Haskell. -- Alp Mestan In charge of the C++ section on Developpez.com.