[Haskell-cafe] Rigid skolem type variable escaping scope

[Lauri Alanko]

Quoting "Matthew Steele" <mdsteele at alum.mit.edu>:
> 1) bar ifn = case ifn of IntFn fn -> foo fn
> 2) bar ifn = foo (case ifn of IntFn fn -> fn)

> I can't help feeling like maybe I am missing some small but  
> important piece from my mental model of how rank-2 types work.

As SPJ suggested, translation to System F with explicit type  
applications makes the issue clearer:

1) bar = \(ifn :: forall a. IntFn a).
              case ifn _a of IntFn (fn :: _a -> Int) -> foo (/\a. ???)
2) bar = \(ifn :: forall a. IntFn a).
              foo (/\a. case ifn a of IntFn (fn :: a -> Int) -> fn)


Lauri