"Doaitse Swierstra"
We alreday are at a stage where first year students trying to master haskell get error messages like "Bool is not an instance of the class Num" if they accidently write 1 + True (or something equivalent, but less obvious).
Good! It will prepare them for C++ error messages of several pages because you forgot to write const next to a member function, thus make the transition from Haskell to something that pays the rent easier.
In short: you will not make Haskell a lot more popular by attracting category theorists, but by making transitions from Java and C as smooth and surprise-free as possible (and this is already hard enough).
Are we talking about the straw that broke the camel's back? Are you serious about making Java/C programmers transition to Haskell? What would be the purpose of that? Immanuel -- *************************************************************************** I can, I can't. Tubbs Tattsyrup -- Immanuel Litzroth Software Development Engineer Enfocus Software Antwerpsesteenweg 41-45 9000 Gent Belgium Voice: +32 9 269 23 90 Fax : +32 9 269 16 91 Email: Immanuell@enfocus.be web : www.enfocus.be ***************************************************************************