[Haskell-cafe] Rank-2 polymorphism and overloading

[Thomas van Noort]

On 26-4-2010 20:12, Daniel Fischer wrote:
> Am Montag 26 April 2010 19:52:23 schrieb Thomas van Noort:
>> ...
>
> Yes, y's type is more general than the type required by f, hence y is an
> acceptable argument for f - even z :: forall a b. a ->  b ->  Bool is.

That's what I thought. I've just never seen such a notion of a more 
general type involving overloading before.

>
>> However, it requires y to throw away the provided
>> dictionary under the hood, which seems counter intuitive to me.
>
> Why? y doesn't need the dictionary, so it just ignores it.

Sure, but y's type explicitly mentions that it doesn't want a 
dictionary, so why would you provide one to it?

>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Thomas
>

Regards,
Thomas