[Haskell-cafe] How to expose if a constraint is satisfiable

[David Kraeutmann]

Correct. That instance won't work as expected.

On 5/7/2018 8:21 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 7:50 AM, Clinton Mead <clintonmead at gmail.com 
> <mailto:clintonmead at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     class Num t => MyNum t where
>       type IsNum t
>     instance Num t => MyNum t where
>       type IsNum t = Satisfied
>
>
> This looks wrong to me: given how instance resolution works, I'd 
> expect this to match every type and produce Satisfied, and later 
> rejection based on the context wouldn't affect it. But I could well be 
> thinking about it incorrectly.
>
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