<div dir="ltr">How about the following rule: unlifted patterns are always strict (i.e., you desugar them as if they had an explicit `!`). A pattern is "unlifted" if the type it examines is unlifted. Seems simple enough and, I think, it would do what most folks would expect. <div><br></div><div>I guess a more explicit option would be to make it an error to use a lazy pattern on an unlifted type, and require programmers to manually add the `!` but I am not sure that gains much, and is more work in the compiler.</div><div><br></div><div>-Iavor</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 10:38 AM Richard Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:rae@richarde.dev">rae@richarde.dev</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 3, 2020, at 12:10 PM, Spiwack, Arnaud <<a href="mailto:arnaud.spiwack@tweag.io" target="_blank">arnaud.spiwack@tweag.io</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">This is all a tad tricky, I must say.</span></div></blockquote></div><br><div>... which is one of the reasons I originally wanted one simple rule. I'm not now saying I was in the right, but it is an attractive resting point for this discussion.</div><div><br></div><div>To be clear, I don't think there's going to be any concrete action here without a proposal, so perhaps once this thread finds a resting point different than the status quo, someone will have to write it up.</div><div><br></div><div>Richard</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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