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Haskell has typeclasses which would probably correspond to structural typing in Scala. This type signature:

Functor f => (a -> b) -> f a -> f b

Defines map for any type that implements the type class functor. Lots of types will implement functor and it is easy to implement it yourself.




> 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).


You get typeclasses in Scala via an interaction between traits and implicits. See http://www.sidewayscoding.com/2011/01/introduction-to-type-c... for a super-quick overview and a link to a more comprehensive paper.





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