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Proposal: Type classes - what they are and how they work #3

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pheymann opened this issue Jul 3, 2018 · 0 comments

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pheymann commented Jul 3, 2018

type: firehose talk
audience: beginner
category: Haskell, Scala

Summary

Type classes are part of the bedrock underlying Functional Programming. But especially for people new to FP this concept can be hard to grasp.

In this talk, I will give a firehose introduction to type classes which:

explains what they are
what they can be used for
and how they work languages with implicit resolution (e.g. Scala) vs. with this mechanism (Haskell)

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