Re: Regarding Class Aliases

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:46:19AM +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

"Christophe Poucet" wrote:

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Class Aliases. I have looked at the ticket and right now it's marked as a low priority with low probability of entering the standard.

I think class aliases might be a nice idea too. But we don't have any concrete experience with implementations that support them. Haskell' is primarily about standarding the current state-of-the-art, so this is why the idea is unlikely to be adopted. But it would be great if someone were to implement it now anyway, and then it might make it into the next language standard.

I had planned on implementing them for ghc, but have had so many projects on my plate (not to mention my day job) I have not had time to really get into it. In retrospect, this would have made a good google summer of code project for me to mentor. In any case, if anyone wants to go ahead and start implementing them I would be more than happy to help in any way I can. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈