small improvement to roles mechanism

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 16.10.2013, 12:50 -0400 schrieb Edward Kmett:
> This does seem to me to have the ugly consequence of splitting the
> long term solutions for Coercible and GND, but I can fully understand
> the appeal of finally plugging the GND issue!

I don’t think the solutions are split up. Instead, they build upon each
other: GND coerces the fields of the dictionary (and not the class
itself) individually; this coercion is (or will be, or should, in any
case: can be) done using the Coercible machinery.

Greetings,
Joachim


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