Richard Eisenberg <r...@richarde.dev> writes:

> One advantage of the phantom-parameter approach is that it allows for nice 
> polymorphism.
>
>> lookupEnv :: Uniquable dom => UniqFM dom rng -> dom -> Maybe rng
>
> Now, we don't need lookupVarEnv separately from lookupNameEnv, but we
> get the type-checking for free.
>
This is true but some consider the fact that the function name captures
the environment type to be a good thing. I don't have a strong opinion
one way of the other on this.

Cheers,

- Ben

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