Colin Adams wrote:
If you have two functions that do two different things, then they certainly OUGHT to have different names.
Well, they do "the same thing" but for different arguments; it's like this: Table is a table of name-value pairs I want to substitute in a tree-like structure using: substitute :: Table -> Tree -> Tree For substituting a single name-value pair I want to define this utitlity routine so I don't have to construct a Table all the time in the user code: substitute :: String -> Value -> Tree -> Tree In the case I believe it would certainly be good to be able to name both functions the same, but I fear I can not do so? There are languages where this is explicitelly allowed (e.g. C++ or Java), so I don't think it is such an unuseful or evil thing. Daniel