explicitly quantified classes in functions

[Hal Daume III]

Why can I not define the following (in ghc):

> class Foo p where
> instance Foo Double where
> foo :: Double -> (forall q . Foo q => q)
> foo p = p

>From my humble (lack of) knowledge, there seems to be nothing wrong here,
but ghc (5.03) complains about unifying q with Double.  I *can* write:

> class Foo p where
> instance Foo Double where
> data T = forall q . Foo q => T q
> foo :: Double -> T
> foo p = T p

which is very similar, except that the explicit universal quantification
is happening in in the datatype and not the function type.

why is the former disallowed?

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