6 Nov
2009
6 Nov
'09
3:16 p.m.
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Stefan Holdermans wrote:
Henning,
Sure, but why was this a problem? Because they had to re-arrange a lot, and had to change the signature each time. But once that re-arrangement settles, it would be nice to have the Seq type constraint, right?
I cannot tell whether *I* would find it problematic in practice. Hudak et al. write:
"However, the limitations of this solution soon became apparent. Inspired by the Fox project at CMU, two of Hughes’s students implemented a TCP/IP stack in Haskell, making heavy use of polymorphism in the different layers. ...
Yes, I think that this is the paragraph that can also be found in the History of Haskell. I might add that better refactoring tools could also have been a solution, right?