Overlapping and incoherent instances

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Andreas Abel <andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de>
wrote:

> +1. I like Niklas' syntax better.  Also OVERLAPPABLE is a horrible word,
> OVERLAPPING sound less formidable (even though it might be slightly less
> accurrate).


We already get "overlap ok" in instance-related type errors, so OVERLAP_OK
wouldn't be particularly alien even if it doesn't quite fit in with
existing pragmas.

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