<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 25, 2019, at 11:16 AM, Simon Marlow <<a href="mailto:marlowsd@gmail.com" class="">marlowsd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="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;" class="">* Elision in types doesn't seem all that useful, yet it occupies prime syntactic real estate. I thought about this for a while and I don't have any alternative suggestions unfortunately.</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">For what it's worth, I completely agree here. However, we Haskellers seem to like being able to say `const x _ = x`. Being able to write an underscore there is nice, and we would sorely miss its absence. Why don't we feel the same about `const :: a -> _ -> a`? Maybe it's that we're not used to it? I agree that I don't feel the same about these two elisions, but I can't articulate why.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Richard</div></body></html>