Dear haskellers, I suggest you the two notes on the Haskell language: (1) it is desirable to accommodate such features of Aldor language as types as values and dependent types (2) the properties of operations, like associativity, commutativity ..., can be handled by `usual' Haskell, to some extent. (1): As I wrote earlier, Haskell instances cannot model such domains as the residue ring Integer/(n), when n changes dynamically. This is why the BAL library applies the sample argument approach, and this somewhat complicates the program meaning. Now, we observe in the Aldor manual (http:/www.aldor.org), Section 7.8: `` Zmod(n: Integer) : Ring with { if prime? n then Field; } == Integer add { if prime? n then {inv (x: %) : % == ...} } Z_n, the domain of integers modulo n, is always a Ring. However, if n is prime, then Z_n is also a Field, meaning that it should provide a multiplicative inverse for nonzero values. In an `add' expression, a definition which appears in the consequence of an `if' expression is said to be a conditional definition ... '' But Aldor is non-functional, strict, has a bit of `garbage' in the language, has only one implementation, and this one is not free-with-source. Also I am not sure that the above example will really work in the existing Aldor implementation. Further, there exists a fully commercial Axiom program, which can be considered as a large nonstandard algebraic library for Aldor. This library is certain recommendation for the language. It will be good for Haskell, or any language of its type, to extend and drift towards Aldor, but with preserving functionality and elegance. I always thought (naively) that `unsolvability' of types is a fiction. Typically, types and instances resolve at the run-time. But the compiler has to try each time to resolve at compile time as much as possible. (2) I wrote in the BAL paper that meaningful standard algebraic categories (classes) may, in principle, help the compiler to optimize programs using the properties related to the category names (associativity, commutativity ...). On the other hand, people write now and then, that they consider such possible properties only as intended, saying that the language does not provide room for their explicit usage (the latter was also said by the referee of this paper). It occurs to me now that there may be certain misunderstanding. I kept in mind implicitly that as soon as these categories enter a library standard their names can also be added to the _key words of a language_. In this way the compiler is enabled to use the relevant properties. There remains a question of expressions like _|_ + 1 === 1 + _|_, but this is another matter, maybe, a matter of flags for the compiler and language version. Regards, ----------------- Serge Mechveliani mechvel@botik.ru