Tony Morris

@steshaw interesting fact: similar problems exist in natural language!

@psygnisfive am I exhibiting the problem with my use of natural language? That would be spooky.

@steshaw any time you use a third person pronoun you exhibit the problem :) or a definite noun phrase!

@psygnisfive @steshaw put briefly: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1064232/haskell-overlapping-instances/1072523#1072523 …

@psygnisfive @steshaw "yeah. Num for Int. But uh…which one?"

@bitemyapp @psygnisfive why isn't it enough to say "the Num for Int which is in scope"? If there's more than one in scope, compiler "bleats"

@steshaw @bitemyapp @psygnisfive Data structures exist in different contexts, for examples sorted set if different orders are in scope.

@markhibberd @bitemyapp @psygnisfive on the weekend @dibblego referred me to https://github.com/scalaz/scalaz/issues/671 …, that led me to oleg's functional pearl