[jhc] (->) not working too well...

[Samuel Bronson]

On 3/17/08, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:32:01PM -0400, Samuel Bronson wrote:
> > On 3/17/08, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:
> > > yeah, that doesn't surprise me that much, though it will likely be not
> > > too hard to fix. basically, since we need to sometimes treat types as
> > > values we can scrutinize (->) has a reified form of the type
> > > constructor that takes two arguments named Jhc at .-> defined in Name.Names
> > > as tc_Arrow.
> > >
> > > Code just needs to make sure that it translates between the two forms as
> > > needed.
> >
> > That's easy for you to say... but JHC doesn't seem to get the kind
> > right on (->) at this point...
>
>
> Well, the kind of (->) is fairly tricky due to the fact it is
> kind-polymorphic for the same reason it is in ghc. since functions need
> to accept unboxed arguments and return unboxed tuples.
>
> Though, restraining it to * -> * -> * in class heads probably makes
> sense.

I'm trying an explicit declaration in Jhc.Basics (yes, I changed the
name to be a name in Jhc.Basics instead of Jhc@ everywhere...)