Re: functions not in type classes

I was tempted to answer your original question with "Because Haskell is not an object oriented language and type classes are not object classes", but I thought that would be churlish. Now you write:

Well can you give examples of some useful functions? I can live without id, and (.)

and I /have/ to say that if you can live without these you aren't writing functional programmes. Jón -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk 31 Chalmers Road jf@cl.cam.ac.uk Cambridge CB1 3SZ +44 1223 570179 (after 14:00 only, please!)