Allow ambiguous types (with warning) by default

[Sumit Sahrawat, Maths & Computing, IIT (BHU)]

We could have a LANGUAGE pragma that makes the language easier for
beginners.
Provided it would not change anything major, otherwise it will be hard to
decide how much to simplify the language.
We can restrict it to only enabling some other extensions, one of which
could be AllowAmbiguousTypes.

On 6 December 2015 at 04:51, David Kraeutmann <kane at kane.cx> wrote:

> I'm strongly against this, for a multitude of reasons. There's already a
> mechanism for doing what you want -- type defaulting. See also
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8171 .
>
> On 12/5/2015 11:38 PM, David Feuer wrote:
> > The ambiguity check produces errors that are quite surprising to the
> > uninitiated. When the check is suppressed, the errors at use sites are
> > typically much easier to grasp. On the other hand, there's obviously a
> lot
> > of value to catching mistakes as soon as possible. Would it be possible
> to
> > turn that into a warning by default?
> >
> >
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Regards

Sumit Sahrawat
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