[ghc-steering-committee] a plea for PolyKinds

Iavor Diatchki iavor.diatchki at gmail.com
Thu Dec 3 19:53:28 UTC 2020


Oh?  Perhaps I am confused, if we can have PolyKinds without TypeInType,
I'd be happy to change my vote.  My understanding was that basically
`TypeInType` got renamed to  `PolyKinds` but I might be confused.

-Iavor

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 11:50 AM Alejandro Serrano Mena <trupill at gmail.com>
wrote:

> But PolyKinds does not require TypeInType, according to the docs [
> https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/latest/docs/html/users_guide/glasgow_exts.html#extension-PolyKinds]
> it is in fact the other way around: TypeInType implies PolyKinds. Of
> course, the fact that kinds and types are unified may leak somehow, but I
> have a hard time figuring out an example of such.
>
> El jue, 3 dic 2020 a las 18:51, Iavor Diatchki (<iavor.diatchki at gmail.com>)
> escribió:
>
>> I would totally support that if PolyKinds was implemented without
>> requiring TypeInType, but with the current design for me this is a solid
>> `no`.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 9:48 AM Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Am Donnerstag, den 03.12.2020, 16:40 +0000 schrieb Richard Eisenberg:
>>> > Vote for PolyKinds!
>>>
>>> convinced.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Joachim
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