George Russell wrote:
>
> I'm sorry if this is a FAQ, but I'm curious to know why Haskell (or at least, GHC
>and Hugs)
> doesn't seem able to use contexts on variables at the front of data declarations.
There has been some discussion on contexts on data declarations during
the Haskell 98 standardization process. See:
http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Haskell/Messages/Display.cgi?id=302
I think this discussion also lead John Hughes to write his paper on
"Restricted Datatypes in Haskell" which is available from his homepage:
http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rjmh/
Hope this helps,
- Andreas
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