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asplake
on Aug 16, 2019
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Dependent Haskell Is the Future (2018)
What body of knowledge defines "type classes"? I ask out of relative ignorance, kinda saw it as Haskell thing
Sharlin
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The term "type class" is original to Haskell, I think, but the concept (constrained parametric polymorphism) is fairly standard programming language theory.
pwm
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If you are curious this is a good read:
https://www.parsonsmatt.org/2017/01/07/how_do_type_classes_d...
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