[Haskell-cafe] newtype a Constraint?
Max Bolingbroke
batterseapower at hotmail.com
Tue Mar 12 22:07:56 CET 2013
On 12 March 2013 13:18, Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> wrote:
> Is there a way to newtype a constraint?
>
> Imagine a type class parameterised over constraints. What do I do if I
> want multiple instances for (essentially) the same constraint?
It would make sense to add support for this to newtype directly. I
think it would also make sense to allow newtypes over types of kind #.
"All" that is required is some implementation effort: I looked into
doing this as part of the constraint kinds patches but it is a bit
messy.
Max
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