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type class: a standalone construct

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a mechanism for principled overloading in which a class declares operations and instance declarations supply them for particular types, resolved by type inference.

In programming languages, type class refers to a mechanism for principled overloading in which a class declares operations and instance declarations supply them for particular types, resolved by type inference. This meaning comes from Wadler (1989) in Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages - POPL '89.[1]

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  1. Wadler, P., & Blott, S. (1989). How to make ad-hoc polymorphism less ad hoc. Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages - POPL '89. https://doi.org/10.1145/75277.75283

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