On 9/20/06, Misha Aizatulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  What I need it for is serialization of datatypes with existential
constructors (see
http://haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2006-September/018041.html)
  I am having a box like
> data Box = forall a. Cxt a => Box a
  and want to write a Read instances for it.

Can you define instance Cxt a => Read (Box a)? If not, then you need
typecase and Haskell does not really support that.

--
Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"You can't prove anything."
   -- Gödel's Incompetence Theorem
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