Re: The monomorphism restriction and monomorphic pattern bindings

2008-04-30 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:18:47PM +0100, Ross Paterson wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:32:24AM -0700, Simon Marlow wrote: The current proposal on the table for what to do about the monomorphism restriction (henceforth MR) is * remove the MR entirely Just to be clear, are we

Re: Meta-point: backward compatibility

2008-04-30 Thread Aaron Denney
On 2008-04-30, Ross Paterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 08:18:10PM +, Aaron Denney wrote: And there is a lot that clearly isn't battle tested in a reasonable new form, though the current practice is widely agreed upon to be broken. Examples include all monads having