28 Nov
2011
28 Nov
'11
8:34 p.m.
On 29 November 2011 12:29, Kazu Yamamoto
Hello,
This is off-topic but I'm curious.
Why the container package does not provide a type-class to unify APIs? Are there any technical/historical reasons?
Various people have tried, but they're typically unweildy, and in some cases difficult to express without using extensions. There's also tension between "this should be a class method" vs "this should be a function that uses the class" (large classes are annoying, but having a function as a class method allows for more potential implementation-specific optimisations). -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com