The dreaded M-R

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

John Hughes <rjmh at cs.chalmers.se> writes:

> By the way, you leave out a lot of type signatures too. Your Djinn
> module contains 29 declarations with type signatures--and 17
> without. The 17 are local, but local declarations are precisely
> those where, without the M-R, a lack of sharing would be most likely
> to bite.

Local definitions are rarely used polymorphically.

Perhaps without a type signature the definition should be polymorphic
and recomputed if it's global, and monomorphic and shared if it's local.

This is how it works in Clean: =: defines a shared constant, => defines
a nullary function, and = is equivalent to =: locally and to => globally,
irrespective of a type signature.

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