On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 08:29:21AM -0700, Jared Updike wrote:

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Am I the only one whose first instinct upon reading this is "EW!"?

You are not the only one, judging from my own experience. I made my own sort of algebraic datatypes / abstract datatypes in C# by using Enums and Objects and runtime casts. It works, but the code itself is hairy. I guess the good news is that once I built the ADT the---in my case, ugly---implementation is hidden.

When I first started using Haskell Sather was my language of choice. As I learned Haskell and all it's cool features I kept wanting to "backport" them to Sather... Algebraic data types was one of the things I proposed to the sather community, a wacky idea for an OO language of sathers heritage. but it was not long after then that I realized I should just be using Haskell to begin with and redirected my efforts here. :) John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈