On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Gábor Lehel <illiss...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Richard Eisenberg <e...@cis.upenn.edu>
> wrote:
> > Which leads me to ask: Why can't we special-case TypeRep to be promoted
> to
> > *, allowing the construction I wrote above? It seems both kludgy and
> elegant
> > at the same time, somehow. I would love to hear others' thoughts on this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Richard
>
> Hmm, isn't TypeRep also used to represent types of other kinds,
> though, not just *?
>

I share this concern; TypeRep represents things of all kinds, so it's a bit
surprising
that its promotion would be * ...

(For the record, I also think that :~: is a better name.)


Cheers,
Pedro


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