Changes to Typeable

[Roman Leshchinskiy]

On 10/02/2012, at 23:30, John Meacham wrote:

> something I have thought about is perhaps a special syntax for Proxy, like
> {:: Int -> Int } is short for (Proxy :: Proxy (Int -> Int)). not sure whether
> that is useful enough in practice though, but could be handy if we are throwing
> around types a lot.

We really need explicit syntax for type application. There are already a lot of cases where we have to work around not having it (e.g., Storable) and with the new extensions, there are going to be more and more of those.

Roman