[Haskell-cafe] two type-level programming questions

[Ryan Ingram]

Sort of.  I believe you can use type equality constraints to replace
the use of TypeCast; that is, in any code that looks like:

> instance TypeCast a HTrue => ...

you can write

> instance (a ~ HTrue) => ...

(at least, it has worked for me that way)

This at least makes me feel a bit more monadic (warm & fuzzy!) than
the indecipherable magic that is the declaration of
TypeCast/TypeCast'/TypeCast''

  -- ryan



On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Nicolas Frisby <nicolas.frisby at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) Type families, associated types, synonyms... can anything replace
> the use of TypeCast for explicit instance selection? Section 2, bullet
> 4 of http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/AdvancedOverlap indicates
> a negative response. Any other ideas?
>
> 2) Any progress/options for kind polymorphism in instances?
>
> Thanks for your time.
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