From what I have heard, they are completely subsumed by GADTs, which is
a stable enough extension that it was considered unimportant to save.
Your Foo would be something like this:
data Foo a where
Foo :: Eq a => a -> Foo a
On 4/25/2013 6:38 AM, harry wrote:
If I understand correctly, the problem with datatype contexts is that if we
have e.g.
data Eq a => Foo a = Foo a
the constraint Eq a is thrown away after a Foo is constructed, and any
method using Foos must repeat Eq a in its type signature.
Why were these contexts removed from the language, instead of "fixing" them?
PS This is following up on a discussion on haskell-beginners, "How to avoid
repeating a type restriction from a data constructor". I'm interested in
knowing whether there's a good reason not to allow this, or if it's just a
consequence of the way type classes are implemented by compilers.
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