mark.spezzano:
> Hi,
>
> Just wondering if Generics and Parametric polymorphism are one and the same in
> Haskell.
>
> I read (somewhere!) an article stating that generics might be included in
> Haskell Prime but I thought that they’re already included as parametric
> polymorphism.
>
> Did I misread something? Or is generics in Haskell referring to something
> completely different.
Parametric polymorphism is kinda boring in Haskell -- since it's been
there since the beginning.
We tend to reserve the term "generics" for higher order, and fancier,
polymorphism. These kinds of things:
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html#cat:generics
-- Don
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