On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Tuncer Ayaz <[email protected]> wrote:

> However, what's changed from 8.0.1 to 8.0.2 to trigger this? I mean,
> is a point release supposed to do this? I would expect 8.0 to 8.1 to
> break, but find it surprising x.0.1 to x.0.2 would as well.
>

ImpredicativeTypes has *always* been broken, just in different ways in
every release. Worse, it never had a real specification, therefore no
tests. I think it's just going to be ripped out finally in the next major
release, since VisibleTypeApplication should handle most of the use cases.

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