[Haskell-cafe] How to understand the 'forall' ?

[Eugene Kirpichov]

This means that for any type 'b' you can construct a value of type
'Branch tok st a' by passing to Branch an argument of type
'(PermParser tok st (b -> a))' and 'GenParser tok st b'.
This also means that when you're given a value of type Branch tok st
a, you don't know what that 'b' type was; the only thing you know is
that the 'b' in 'b -> a' in the first argument of Branch is the same
as the 'b' in 'GenParser tok st b'.

See also: the haskellwiki page on existential types.

2009/9/2 zaxis <z_axis at 163.com>:
>
> data Branch tok st a = forall b. Branch (PermParser tok st (b -> a))
> (GenParser tok st b)
>
> please shed a light on me, thanks!
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Eugene Kirpichov
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