[GHC] #8026: DatatypeContexts should be fixed, not deprecated
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#8026: DatatypeContexts should be fixed, not deprecated
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Reporter: gidyn | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Compiler | Version: 7.6.3
Resolution: | Keywords:
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple
Failure: None/Unknown | Difficulty: Unknown
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Comment(by monoidal):
@gidyn: You probably meant `x :: Eq a => Pair a -> a`.
Consider isaacdupree's `equal (undefined :: Pair (() -> ()))`. Surely this
should be legal: `undefined` inhabits every type. Yet attempting to
evaluate it leads to using `==` from `Eq (() -> ())` which does not exist.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8026#comment:9>
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