Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Overloading functions based on arguments?

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, John A. De Goes wrote:

In any case, no one has really addressed the original poster's question: No, "name overloading" is not possible in Haskell, and surprisingly, there are no blocking technical issues why this must be the case.

Prefixing names with module names is good style: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Qualified_names Where is the need for more overloading?