escape from existential quantification

[Wang Meng]

I understand that existentially bound types cannot escape.

For example, say we have
data Foo = forall a. Foo Int a

Then we cannot define a function
extract (Foo i a) = a

However,this limitation makes it extremly difficult to program with local
quantifications.Is there any way to by pass this?

 -W-M-
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