[Haskell-cafe] Confused about type seen in the wild

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 17:45:32 UTC 2014


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Felipe Lessa <felipe.lessa at gmail.com>wrote:

> Em 10-04-2014 13:27, Albert Y. C. Lai escreveu:
> > My understanding is that when the type checker has to support all those
> > generalizations like ConstraintKind, DataKinds, etc etc, it becomes so
> > general that some traditional distinctions vanish.
>
> What?  Shouldn't that be a bug?
>

It "should be" but I suspect actually treating it as one is rather
difficult now that it's possible for `a` there to be a Constraint or etc.,
in which case it is on the correct side of the =>.

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