[Haskell-cafe] Re: Is it possible to read existential types?

[Chung-chieh Shan]

On 2004-04-29T11:50:48-0400, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:
> But isn't the point of this code that you don't
> need that type signature?  If I knew in advance
> that it was an Integer then I wouldn't need to
> passs "Integer" in the list.

In the context in which the code was originally written, the point
was not that you don't need that type signature.  Your comment above
helped me understand what you want, I think.

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