[Haskell-cafe] manage effects in a DSL

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Dominique Devriese <
dominique.devriese at cs.kuleuven.be> wrote:

> Local instances were already considered by Wadler when he proposed
> type classes, but they are problematic to combine with type inference
>

Local instances have a bigger problem: you can use them to trivially
violate invariants. Consider a local replacement for Ord on a Data.Map.
They're not going to happen.

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