Overlapping and incoherent instances

Andreas Abel andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de
Tue Jul 29 16:07:06 UTC 2014


Or just OVERLAP
(applying the razor).

On 29.07.2014 17:56, Krzysztof Skrzętnicki wrote:
> How about CAN_OVERLAP?
>
> --
> Krzysztof
>
> 29-07-2014 15:40, "Brandon Allbery" <allbery.b at gmail.com
> <mailto:allbery.b at gmail.com>> napisał(a):
>
>     On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Andreas Abel
>     <andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de <mailto:andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de>> wrote:
>
>         +1. I like Niklas' syntax better.  Also OVERLAPPABLE is a
>         horrible word, OVERLAPPING sound less formidable (even though it
>         might be slightly less accurrate).
>
>
>     We already get "overlap ok" in instance-related type errors, so
>     OVERLAP_OK wouldn't be particularly alien even if it doesn't quite
>     fit in with existing pragmas.
>
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