There's nothing wrong with the definition of FooGraph. That's how you do it. -- Lennart On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Derek Gladding <derek@solidmath.com> wrote:
Please forgive me if I'm still mentally contaminated by the OO way of seeing (and discussing) the universe, but I'm trying to figure out how to "inherit an interface" from a multi-parameter type class.
I have a Graph class that's parameterisable by Node and Edge type:
class (Node a, Edge b) => Graph a b where (lots of stuff that you can do with Graph a b)
Now, I'd like to build a FooGraph on top of this that adds additional capabilities:
class (Graph a b) => FooGraph a b where (lots of additional stuff)
but this isn't allowed (kind mismatch).
Of couse, I can do:
class (Node a, Edge b) => FooGraph a b
but this means that I have to manually replicate the Graph a b operations in the FooGraph a b class definition, which is (a) work that the machine should (?) be able to do for me, and (b) fragile.
Any pointers / wisdom would be very much appreciated.
- Derek
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