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by leshow 2853 days ago
I don't think it's crazy to wish for some kind of interface or trait-like abstraction mechanism in a language. Anything taken to the extreme can sound stupid.

edit: I'm not saying Elm should change, the time for that is long gone. Just that the idea someone would want an interface (to do things like bound on generically) isn't that far fetched.
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Skinney 2853 days ago
> the time for that is long gone

What makes you say that? Elm has yet to reach 1.0, anything can happen. It's not likely it will happen any time soon, however.

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leshow 2851 days ago
> What makes you say that?

Because Evan has shown no interest in implementing a feature like what I'm describing.

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Skinney 2848 days ago
That's like saying Go will never get generics because it doesn't have it right now. Evan doesn't believe type classes are a right fit for Elm, but he has never to my knowledge ruled out that ad-hoc polymorphism will be added to the language.
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