> Haskell has typeclasses which would probably correspond to structural typing in Scala.
Nah, typeclasses are nominative typing but added post-facto (you can define a typeclass instance for a third party's type). Typeclasses are similar to Scala's traits I think (I don't know if you can add traits to a library's types though).
It does, but it does not support downcasting (it does support upcasting)
For instance, the Ord typeclass extends the Eq typeclass, so any instance of Ord can be used as an instance of Eq. But there is no way to cast an instance of Eq to an instance of Ord.
Haskell is perfectly able to do that as well if desired. `[]` is a monadic type.