Implicit 'forall' in data declarations
Simon Peyton-Jones
simonpj at microsoft.com
Mon Oct 25 03:16:28 EDT 2010
| On a related note, these are also apparently allowed (in 6.10.4):
| f :: forall a. (Eq a => a -> a) -> a -> a
| -- the Eq context prevents the function from ever being called.
That's not true. E.g.
f ((==) True) True
works fine.
| g :: forall a. Ord a => (Eq a => a -> a) -> a -> a
| -- the Eq context is effectively ignored
That's a bit more true, because Ord a implies Eq a, but still not really. It still says that you must pass evidence for equality to g's argument.
Simon
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