GADTs and pedagogy was Re: GADTs and fundeps

Simon Peyton-Jones simonpj at microsoft.com
Fri Apr 8 09:25:28 EDT 2005


| I doubt pedagogics was an important part of your goal with GADTs, but
now
| several people wish that "deriving Show" worked so that GADTs could be
used for
| everything.

You mean, if the data type being defined doesn't actually use the
generality of GADTs, allow GADT syntax, and deriving() too?

S


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