-- (C) 2004-2005, Oleg Kiselyov & Ralf Laemmel -- Haskell's overlooked object system module Polymorph where import Shape import Circle import Rectangle -- BiFunctors class BiFunctor f where bimap :: (a -> b) -> (c -> d) -> f a c -> f b d instance BiFunctor Either where bimap f g (Left x) = Left (f x) bimap f g (Right x') = Right (g x') -- Tagged shapes are shapes instance (Shape a, Shape b) => Shape (Either a b) where readShape f = either (readShape f) (readShape f) writeShape f = bimap (writeShape f) (writeShape f) draw = either draw draw -- Up-cast operation type AnyShape = Either RectangleData CircleData class UpCastToShape x where upCastToShape :: x -> AnyShape instance UpCastToShape RectangleData where upCastToShape = Left instance UpCastToShape CircleData where upCastToShape = Right -- Weirich's / Rathman's test case main = do -- Handle the shapes polymorphically let scribble = [ upCastToShape (rectangle 10 20 5 6) , upCastToShape (circle 15 25 8) ] mapM_ ( \x -> do draw x draw (rMoveTo 100 100 x) ) scribble -- Handle rectangle-specific instance draw $ setWidth 30 (rectangle 0 0 15 15)