Proposal: Type classes - what they are and how they work

[pheymann]

type: firehose talk
audience: beginner
category: Haskell, Scala

Summary

Type classes are part of the bedrock underlying Functional Programming. But especially for people new to FP this concept can be hard to grasp.

In this talk, I will give a firehose introduction to type classes which:

• explains what they are
• what they can be used for
• and how they work languages with implicit resolution (e.g. Scala) vs. with this mechanism (Haskell)