[Haskell-cafe] Existential question
Miguel Mitrofanov
miguelimo38 at yandex.ru
Thu Aug 18 10:07:25 CEST 2011
> Now, what we can do with kl1? We can feed it an integer, say 1, and
> obtain function f of the type s -> (s,Bool) for an _unknown_ type s.
> Informally, that type is different from any concrete type. We can
> never find the Bool result produced by that function since we can
> never have any concrete value s. The only applications of f that will
> type check are
> \s -> f s
> f undefined
> both of which are useless to obtain f's result.
That's not true. We can tie the knot:
let (s, o) = f s in o
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