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To complement some of the great answers here, I would like to point out that in Haskell, instead of objects carrying around a vtable pointer, the typeclass dictionaries get passed arount as extra implicit arguments to the functions.

This is important when you have binary operations like `+`. In haskell both operands must be the same type while with OO interfaces the operands can have different concrete implementations.



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