On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:17:57AM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote: > On 30 January 2006 21:49, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > > In the present case, people aren't (only) opposing the M-R out of > > principle, but because they actually use overloaded variable > > definitions and (at least sometimes) want to leave off the signature. > > > > So I don't see how one could claim, as on the wiki, the warning > > "wouldn't happen much". I suspect it would happen, and annoy people, > > and defeat the reason that people want to remove the M-R. > > The assertion that it "wouldn't happen much" is based on the observation > earlier in this thread that it was actually difficult to write some code > that illustrated the problem.
This indicates that the warning "wouldn't happen much" _when you want sharing_. But it would happen all the time when you don't want sharing, eg. in the case Malcolm Wallace just posted. Andrew _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
