Inferring from context declarations

[Andreas Rossberg]

George Russell wrote:
> 
> (3) Simon Peyton Jones' comments about dictionary passing are a red herring,
>     since they assume a particular form of compiler.  Various (MLj, MLton)
>     ML compilers already inline out all polymorphism. Some C++ compilers/linkers
>     do it in a rather crude way as well, for templates.  If you can do it,
>     you can forget about dictionary passing.

Such monomorphisation is not possible for Haskell in general, because it
allows polymorphic recursion. As a consequence, the number of
dictionaries constructed for a given program also is potentially
infinite.

	- Andreas

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