Re: [Haskell-cafe] The implementation of functional languages

2004-09-21 Thread David Barton
John Meacham writes: > > >I am looking for the book "The implementation of Functional > > >Programming languages" by S. L. Peyton Jones. > > This book is out of print and currently there is no electronic version > > of it. The Haskell bookstore folk are working on reconstructing it and > > making

Re: [Haskell-cafe] no dynamic binding

2004-09-21 Thread Graham Klyne
I think others have provided the immediate answers to your question, so I'll skip that. But, standing back, you seem to have fallen prey to a misunderstanding I made when learning Haskell, thinking that a "class" is directly analogous to a class in OO languages. While there are similarities, t