Proposal: Turn on ScopedTypeVariables by default

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Andrew Farmer <afarmer at ittc.ku.edu> wrote:

> I'm guessing the problem is that its not Haskell 98/2010? I think GHC
> has a policy to do only what the spec says by default. Is that still
> true now that AMP is implemented?
>

I think the main worry is that it steals syntax, specifically the `forall`
keyword, which is just an identifier in H'98 and H'2010. (And some
bikeshedding over `forall` being inappropriate for this use, but I suspect
that ship sailed long ago.)

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