#5612: Better support for kinds in Template Haskell
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Reporter: guest | Owner: lunaris
Type: feature request | Status: patch
Priority: low | Milestone: 7.6.1
Component: Compiler | Version: 7.3
Keywords: PolyKinds, TemplateHaskell | Os: Unknown/Multiple
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: Other
Difficulty: Unknown | Testcase:
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Comment(by simonpj):
In the source language (as it stands) there is no way to ''explicitly''
quantify over a kind variable; you cannot say `forall k. forall (a::k).
blah`. Instead, kind quantification is always implicit. (This is really
a missing feature, but that's another story.)
Currently TH is just concrete syntax for Haskell source syntax. So I
think it's proably ok not to have `KindV`, but instead simply not to bind
kind variables explicitly.
All of this is ''bound'' to affect TH users using `Kind`; there's really
no alternative I think.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5612#comment:17>
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