[Haskell-cafe] an idea for modifiyng data/newtype syntax: use `::=` instead of `=`

[htebalaka]

It sort of should I think. In Idris I believe closed type families just use
regular function syntax, can be declared inside of let-bindings, have type
signatures themselves, and otherwise syntactically behave just like the
value level equivalents. I'm hoping at some point goldfire's dependent
Haskell work will eventually lead to the same in Haskell, though I know from
his comments on reddit that this is very far off from being a reality.

Daniel Trstenjak-2 wrote
> But with this point of view 'type Sequence t = [t]' is also somehow
> bogus and should just be 'Sequence t = [t]'.
> 
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