[Haskell-cafe] using type variables in type declarations inside function

[Ryan Reich]

I too am curious about the forall in ScopedTypeVariables. It seems formally
unnecessary, so I assume it is designed to avert some kind of inconsistency
with standard behavior? Thinking about other extensions, e.g.
FlexibleInstances or MultiParamTypeClasses, it seems like they all give
meaning to constructs that are forbidden by the standard, while this one
actually changes the standard behavior (for the better, imho) and so
requires protection by some nonstandard signifier, i.e. forall.

On Apr 12, 2018 13:27, "Dennis Raddle" <dennis.raddle at gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks!

By the way, why do I sometimes have to use forall, and sometimes not?

I'm also learning Purescript, and I noticed that the examples use 'forall'
in every case. Why would it be different with Purescript?
D

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 3:47 PM, Dennis Raddle <dennis.raddle at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> myFunc :: a -> b -> c
>> myFunc x y z = ...
>>   where
>>     helper :: a -> [b]
>>     helper xx = ...
>>
>> Notice that I'm attempting to declare 'helper' using my type variables.
>> I've noticed that this results in an error.
>> Is this actually possible, and how?
>>
>
> You need the ScopedTypeVariables extension, *and* to "declare" the type
> variables whose scope is to be extended with an explicit "forall" in the
> signature.
>
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