Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fwd: Is it possible to represent such polymorphism?

That´s the very same advantage and disadvantage when using any EDSLs, By the way 2011/10/6 Steffen Schuldenzucker

On 10/05/2011 11:30 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote:

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if Hlist is sugarized as variable length tuples, then the initial code would compile without noticing the use of HList...

Seems to me like the advantage of such a sugaring would be that people could use a complex framework without actually having to think about it. On the other hand, the greatest disadvantage would be that people could use a complex framework without actually having to think about it.

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2011/10/5 Felipe Almeida Lessa mailto:felipe.lessa@gmail.com**>

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Alberto G. Corona mailto:agocorona@gmail.com> wrote: > If a newbie considers this as something natural, this is another reason for > syntactic sugaring of HList: > http://www.haskell.org/**pipermail/haskell-cafe/2011-** April/090986.htmlhttp://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2011-April/090986.html

Exposing newbies to HList seems like a recipe for disaster for me =).

-- Felipe.

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