request: a Nat ordering constraint that is not an equality constraint

[Richard Eisenberg]

This is an interesting proposal. When I started reading it, I wondered why anyone would want to avoid the current definition. But you motivate that part well. I would want a larger test of the IsTrue approach to make sure it does what you want before supporting this. But wait: couldn't you write your GHC.TypeLits.Passive today, in a library, with no ill effect? If so, there isn't a strict reason GHC needs to adopt this. (Of course, if the new definition proves useful, then it might make sense to do so in time.)

> On May 21, 2019, at 3:48 AM, Nicolas Frisby <nicolas.frisby at gmail.com> wrote:
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> P.P.S. - Is there a standard place to find something like `IsTrue`? More generally: a test for type equality that does not drive unification? Thanks again.

If something like this ends up in GHC, Data.Type.Bool seems like the right place.

Richard