Instance checking and phantom types

Sven Panne Sven.Panne at informatik.uni-muenchen.de
Mon Sep 15 22:04:41 EDT 2003


Nick Name wrote:
> Got it ;) Thanks for prompt reply. What does "should always be explicit" 
> mean? Is there a notion of "explicit context" that I should know?

What I meant was the fact that you always have to write down *all* contexts
involved in a type signature. Nothing is "inherited under the hood" by
contexts in datatype declarations.

Cheers,
    S.




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