misc type comments

rinus plasmeijer rinus@cs.kun.nl
Tue, 10 Mar 1998 00:08:05 +0200


Hi Alan,

>Clean provides a type synonym construct, but this does not provide distinct
>types thus inhibiting overloading.

In general it is not sound to allow type synonyms as instantiation of overloaded  functions. Therefore we do not allow it.

Greetings,

Rinus