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<p class="MsoNormal">Sam, Richard, Adam, Vlad, Ryan, and other people interested in GHC’s type system.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Following discussion with Richard, I have created a new ticket #20686 for
<a href="https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/20686">Make the design of defaulting explicit</a>. This should inform !6851 which is trying to finish up Concrete# constraints.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please have a look – we ‘d love your views on The Choice.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Richard especially, but everyone really: feel free to edit the Description to make it more clear/accurate. I propose to treat it as our master design document.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Simon<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">PS: I am leaving Microsoft at the end of November 2021, at which point
<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com">simonpj@microsoft.com</a> will cease to work. Use
<a href="mailto:simon.peytonjones@gmail.com">simon.peytonjones@gmail.com</a> instead. (For now, it just forwards to simonpj@microsoft.com.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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