Problem with lexically scoped type variables.

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Aha.  That's a bug.  The forall'd type variables of an expression type
signature should scope over the expression.

Thank you -- I'll fix it, though I don't know if it'll get into 6.6 now.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Mirko Rahn [mailto:rahn at ira.uka.de]
| Sent: 02 October 2006 16:05
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones
| Cc: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: Problem with lexically scoped type variables.
| 
| 
| > Oh I see. Well, you'd need to put the type annotation for s back in:
| >
| > t1 = runST ( (trav f [1..10] (1,52) >>= \ (s::STRef s (Set Int)) ->
seen
| > s)
| >  		:: forall s. ST s [Int] )
| 
| ...and reach the starting point again. This version gives the same
error
| message as the original one.
| 
| But what works is to give some more detailed hints to the type system:
| 
| t1S = trav f [1..10] (1,52) :: ST s (STRef s (Set Int))
| t2S = trav f [1..10] (1,52) :: ST s (STUArray s Int Bool)
| 
| t1 = runST ( t1S >>= seen )
| t2 = runST ( t2S >>= seen )
| 
| This compiles (and works).
| 
| Thank's for advice, MR
| 
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