Computer Science – Programming Languages
Scientific paper
2005-09-10
Computer Science
Programming Languages
79 pages; software available at http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ralf/OOHaskell/
Scientific paper
Haskell provides type-class-bounded and parametric polymorphism as opposed to subtype polymorphism of object-oriented languages such as Java and OCaml. It is a contentious question whether Haskell 98 without extensions, or with common extensions, or with new extensions can fully support conventional object-oriented programming with encapsulation, mutable state, inheritance, overriding, statically checked implicit and explicit subtyping, and so on. We systematically substantiate that Haskell 98, with some common extensions, supports all the conventional OO features plus more advanced ones, including first-class lexically scoped classes, implicitly polymorphic classes, flexible multiple inheritance, safe downcasts and safe co-variant arguments. Haskell indeed can support width and depth, structural and nominal subtyping. We address the particular challenge to preserve Haskell's type inference even for objects and object-operating functions. The OO features are introduced in Haskell as the OOHaskell library. OOHaskell lends itself as a sandbox for typed OO language design.
Kiselyov Oleg
Laemmel Ralf
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