kind inference

John Meacham john at repetae.net
Thu Nov 17 20:43:28 EST 2005


On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 01:17:02PM +0000, Ross Paterson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 12:46:31PM -0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> > On 17 November 2005 12:45, Ross Paterson wrote:
> > | I think the H98 rule is arbitrarily restrictive.  But what about
> > | going further and considering the occurrences of type constructors
> > | in instance declarations, type signature declarations and expression
> > | type signatures?
> >
> > one could. but GHC doesn't.  feels low prio to me...
> 
> It would probably not make many more practical programs legal, but it
> would be less arbitrary and easier to explain.

explicit kinds allow you to type everything that this would make legal
right?  
        John

-- 
John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ 


More information about the Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list