Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:

> >   Doesn't Haskell support encapsulation?

> Last time I checked, Java has the same limitation.

  You said:

> > struct Point {int x; int y;}
> 
>    data Point = Point {x, y :: Int}
> 
> Caution: Note that the names "x" and "y" must be unique within the
> entire module. For this reason, you'd probably use longer names.

  I understand to mean that the names 'x' and 'y' in your code above
actually garbage the global namespace.

  In the original C code they are local to 'Point' and do not affect
anything outside it.

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                                                          - Warp

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