How do you define a class type?

a class describes the contents of the objects that belong to it : it describes an aggregate of data fields (called instance variables), and defines the operations (called methods). object: an object is an element (or instance) of a class; objects have the behaviors of their class.

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What is EQ class in Haskell?

The Eq class defines equality ( == ) and inequality ( /= ) . All the basic datatypes exported by the Prelude are instances of Eq , and Eq may be derived for any datatype whose constituents are also instances of Eq . The Haskell Report defines no laws for Eq .

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What is a class constraint Haskell?

Everything before the => symbol is called a class constraint. We can read the previous type declaration like this: the equality function takes any two values that are of the same type and returns a Bool. The type of those two values must be a member of the Eq class (this was the class constraint).

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