On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:04:35AM +0100, Georg Martius wrote:
> From the users point of view, the implementation in GHC works quite
> well and a lot people use it. It would be a pity if they are not
> included in the new standard. What is the problem of specifying what
> is implemented.
They work well most of the time, but people keep discovering strange
behaviour around the edges. For example, the following (example 6 of
Sulzmann et al) sends GHC into a loop:
class Mul a b c | a b -> c where
(.*.) :: a -> b -> c
instance Mul Int Int Int where (.*.) = (*)
instance Mul Int Float Float where x .*. y = fromIntegral x * y
instance Mul a b c => Mul a [b] [c] where x .*. v = map (x.*.) v
f = \ b x y -> if b then x .*. [y] else y
Noone knows how to specify them (short of pointing at GHC, which won't do).
The closest is Sulzmann et al, which makes the problems clearer.
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