24 May
2005
24 May
'05
2:36 a.m.
Hello Ross, Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 4:00:20 AM, you wrote: RP> This can't be fixed by adding a new class. We can't change the type of RP> Prelude.length, and that includes generalizing it. The only alterative RP> to hiding/qualification is to give our functions different names. of course there is old trick: import Prelude (IO) import FancyNewPrelude or: import Prelude hiding (length,head...) import GeneralContainer we already have old-style `catch` in Prelude which must be hided when importing Concureent.Exception, so this usage of "import Prelude..." will be not new -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com