forall a (Ord a => a-> a) -> Int is an illegal type???
Brian Hulley
brianh at metamilk.com
Thu Feb 9 01:29:04 EST 2006
Hi -
I've been puzzling over section 7.4.9.3 of the ghc users manual for the past
few months (!) and still can't understand why the following is an illegal
type:
forall a. ((Ord a => a-> a) -> Int)
whereas
(forall a. Ord a => a->a) -> Int
is legal. I can understand why the second one *is* legal but I can't seem to
understand why the first syntax is not just exactly the same thing even
though the parse tree is different.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
Thanks, Brian.
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