<div dir="ltr">indeed .. and we can reasonably say "lets deal with the bandaid in one go by cleaning it up in the next standard"<div><br></div><div>so what would the next gen look like?</div><div><br></div><div>eg: fresh variables get the usual implicit forall at the front of the type, and everything else either needs an explicit quantifier OR it refers to the outer implicit quantified variable?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Brandon Allbery <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 7:32 AM, Anthony Clayden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anthony_clayden@clear.net.nz" target="_blank">anthony_clayden@clear.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">So the explanation I've seen for the current design is it was deliberately idiosyncratic, to minimise any disruption to existing code. Then I'm asking whether any of that code is still around? If not/if it's been re-factored to use ScopedTypeVariables, then any tweak to the design could have a freer hand.</pre></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>The reason there's no discussion about that is that nobody here has the ability to go hunt down every last piece of code in every public or private (think Standard Chartered, Facebook, etc.) code base and its current owner, and order them to "fix" it. You can't win that battle.</div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-8380864488226383858gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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