Though I see what you might be getting at. There is a difference between 
implementing a template 'forall' vs for a particular type 
On Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 6:27:40 PM UTC-4, Richard wrote:
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>
>
> On Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 9:47:50 AM UTC-4, M88 wrote:
>>
>> I noticed this a while ago in ATS2 (just verified in Temptory).
>>
>
> Just out of curiosity, did you build Temptory from the releases or from 
> scratch?
>  
>
>>
>> It seems that call-by-reference functions in record definitions cause 
>> issues with template dispatch.
>>
>> The following will fail to compile ( no match for `do_something` ) -- 
>> changing  the signature of `foo.f` to `(int) -> void` will compile 
>> successfully.
>>
>>
> Edited below:
> The main difference is annotating the argument 'a' and removing the 
> template <foo> and replacing with impltmp{a} instead.
>  
>
>>
>> #include "share/HATS/temptory_staload_bucs320.hats"
>>
>> typedef foo = @{
>>   f = (&int) -> void
>> }
>>
>> extern
>> fun {a:vtflt} do_something( a:foo ) : void
>>
>> impltmp{a}
>> do_something( x ) =
>>   let
>>      var z : int = 0
>>    in x.f(z)
>>    end
>>
>> implfun main0() 
>>    = println!("Hello [test0]") 
>>    where {
>>      var ff : foo = (@{
>>           f = lam(x) => println!(x)
>>         }): foo
>>
>>      val () = do_something<foo>(ff)
>>    }
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I've been using abstract types / casting as a work-around. 
>>
>

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