Injective type families

[Simon Peyton Jones]

I'd prefer to use TypeFamilyDependencies right now, and keep using that same flag (not a new one) when we extend what "dependencies" means.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Jan Stolarek [mailto:jan.stolarek at p.lodz.pl]
| Sent: 12 January 2016 08:44
| To: Richard Eisenberg <eir at cis.upenn.edu>
| Cc: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>; GHC developers <ghc-
| devs at haskell.org>
| Subject: Re: Injective type families
| 
| > I'm joining this conversation late, but I favor TypeFamilyDependencies over
| > InjectiveTypeFamilies. We use the annotations for things other than
| > injectivity! For example,
| >
| > > type family Plus a b = r | r a -> b, r b -> a
| >
| > is not injective under any common understanding of the word.
| But that is not implemented yet and thus will not make it into GHC 8.0.
| Following earlier
| argumentation, once we have generalized injectivity we should put it into a
| separate extension.
| So I'd say we stick with InjectiveTypeFamilies for currently implemented
| features and put the new
| ones in TypeFamilyDependencies.
| 
| That said, I don't like the idea that every addition to a language extension
| means creating a
| separate language extension.
| 
| Janek
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