<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">As a co-author of the paper that came from this: yes, please! :)<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 26, 2018, at 6:17 AM, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-steering-committee <<a href="mailto:ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org" class="">ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">I’m a strong supporter. I think the proposal itself (which will have longevity) could be improved significantly, and have commented to that effect.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Simon<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1.5pt; border-left-color: blue; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4pt;" class=""><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>ghc-steering-committee <<a href="mailto:ghc-steering-committee-bounces@haskell.org" class="">ghc-steering-committee-bounces@haskell.org</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Iavor Diatchki<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>26 July 2018 09:09<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org" class="">ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[ghc-steering-committee] Discussion about "Type Application in Patterns" (#126)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hello,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">let's also start the discussion on feature request 126. The idea here is that we allow the @ notation for explicit type applications to also be used on constructors in patterns. Using @ with a constructor in a pattern has the same meaning as it does it an expression: the provided type is used to instantiate the corresponding type parameter of the constructor. If the type contains variables, those are treated in the same way as in #128, where "unbound" variables name the matching types. Here are some examples:<o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> f1 (Just @Int x) = x -- This has type `Maybe Int -> Int`<o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> f2 (Just @[a] x) = x == "c" -- `a` is an alias for `Char`<o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> f3 (SomeException @e ex) = ... -- `e` is a name for the existentially hidden exception type<o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Overall I think that is a simple and natural extension to the way @ already works, and I propose that we accept it.<o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Thoughts?<o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">-Iavor<o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; 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