Proposal: Deprecate ExistentialQuantification
Stefan Holdermans
stefan at cs.uu.nl
Sun Jun 28 07:24:53 EDT 2009
Niklas,
> What you really want or mean when you use
> the classic syntax with existential quantification is
>
>> data Foo = Foo (exists a . (Show a) => a)
>
> Having that would make a lot more sense, and would fit well together
> with the intuition of the classic syntax.
How would you then define
data Foo :: * where
Foo :: forall a. a -> a -> Foo
in which the scope of existentially quantified type variable spans
more than one field?
Cheers,
Stefan
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