On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Wvv <vite...@rambler.ru> wrote:
> Newclasses are something like instances, but out of scope. In a baggage.
>
So under the hood of GHC, newclasses would be partially filled in
dictionaries.
We already have too many classes: (...)
>
> We can't divide all classes to atimic ones.
>
As you have seen, we can. As you also see, it is a little impractical.
Main purpose of newclasses is to make instances as minimal as possible. In
> many cases empty.
>
> About newclass and compose data, we can do next:
>
> newclass Foo [a] => FooList a where {containerMainipulation=...}
>
> newclass Foo (Set a) => FooSet a where {containerMainipulation=...}
>
> newclass Foo (Sequence a) => FooSeq a where {containerMainipulation=...}
>
> so now I can switch any container of my data, changing only name of
> newclass:
>
> instance FooList MyData where {dataMainipulation=...}
>
You can already solve that in Haskell 98:
class Foo2 f where { containerManipulation = ... }
instance Foo2 [] where { ... }
instance Foo2 Set where { ... }
instance Foo2 Sequence where { ... }
class (Foo2 f) => Foo1 f a where { dataManipulation = ... }
Or even:
class Foo' a where { dataManipulation' = ... }
dataManipulation = dataManipulation' yourDefaultContainerManipulation
Remember: the only special things about type classes is that they are types
that can/must be implicit. You can (almost?) always replace them by
explicit parameters.
Or let I have an MyArrow data. And I need some semigroupoid manipulations.
> I just write
>
> instance ArrSemigroupoid MyArrow --empty
>
> that's all, I plug-in, let's just use semigroupoids functions!
>
> Or I have MyMonad and I want some Functor, so I just plug-in:
>
> instance MFunctor MyMonad --empty
>
> that's all.
> I also need some Applicative! Easy:
>
> instance MApplicative MyMonad --empty again
>
> done!
>
Let's see how many lines of code this costs in Haskell 98:
instance Monad MyMonad where { ... }
instance Functor MyMonad where
fmap = liftM
instance Applicative MyMonad where
pure = return
(<*>) = ap
Only three lines more, and they're readable.
I think newclasses are not solving the existing problems, as you're only
removing three well-understood lines of code in the above example, while
people have to look up what you mean by MFunctor and MApplicative.
I think default superclass instances are a much better idea, or
alternatively, the ConstraintSynonymInstances I previously mentioned (but
not both -- they'll probably bite each other).
-Stijn
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