[Haskell-cafe] TypeLits and ScopedTypeVariables

[Ben Foppa]

That would explain why it worked in my instance declarations with
ScopedTypeVariables.
Boy do I feel silly.


On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Ben Foppa <benjamin.foppa at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I've been playing with TypeLits recently, trying to create a vector with
>> type-fixed size. I've hit a stumbling block trying to compile this
>> (simplified) code:
>>
>  (...)
>
>> Can anybody shed light on this? It seems like the kind of thing that
>> ScopedTypeVariables should solve, but it doesn't make a difference.
>>
>
> ScopedTypeVariables works here. Did you remember that explicit top level
> `forall` is needed to actually declare type variables to be scoped?
>
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