Re: would support for kind equalities enable the following example?

2014-02-25 Thread Richard Eisenberg
My question is: why do you want Eff to be a GADT? It's true that GADTs do not promote (currently), which is why your first example doesn't work. (It's not to do with kinds, exactly, but GADTs.) But, I don't quite see a reason for having a GADT there -- generally, when a GADT is really useful,

RE: OverloadedRecordFields

2014-02-25 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
Adam I'm very happy to hear that... good stuff. I'm under water with ICFP submissions (deadline Sat). Moreover I think it is clearly too later to put this into 7.8; RC1 is out and I expect RC2 any day. So I suggest we plan to merge after 7.8 is out. Are the wiki pages up to date?

Re: OverloadedRecordFields

2014-02-25 Thread Adam Gundry
Simon, On 25/02/14 16:18, Simon Peyton Jones wrote: I'm very happy to hear that... good stuff. I'm under water with ICFP submissions (deadline Sat). Moreover I think it is clearly too later to put this into 7.8; RC1 is out and I expect RC2 any day. So I suggest we plan to merge after

Re: OverloadedRecordFields

2014-02-25 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 25/02/14 16:18, Simon Peyton Jones wrote: Adam I'm very happy to hear that... good stuff. I'm under water with ICFP submissions (deadline Sat). Moreover I think it is clearly too later to put this into 7.8; RC1 is out and I expect RC2 any day. So I suggest we plan to merge after

Re: OverloadedRecordFields

2014-02-25 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
On 2014-02-25 at 18:42:03 +0100, Adam Gundry wrote: [...] They are up to date but I'll go over them and tidy them up. Alas, it doesn't look like Trac supports redirects... actually, it does, but the plugin was just missing; see https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WikiMacros#Description

Pretty-printing of type variables (Help needed for #8776)

2014-02-25 Thread Dr. ERDI Gergo
Hi, Ticket #8776 (https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8776) is about the output formatting of pattern synonym type signatures. With -dppr-debug, the problematic signature looks like this: (base:GHC.Num.Num{tc 2b} t{tv aQa} [sk], ghc-prim:GHC.Classes.Eq{tc 23} t{tv aQb} [sk]) =

Re: would support for kind equalities enable the following example?

2014-02-25 Thread Carter Schonwald
IN this case i *DO* want the GADT. (but i can't express it) The reason is simple: one type parameter makes for a less complex API to educate others about than 2 type parameters. And likewise for 3 vs 4. Etc etc. Its a human factors thing :) I do agree in this case that my defunctionalized type

Re: would support for kind equalities enable the following example?

2014-02-25 Thread Carter Schonwald
Reid Just helped me whack out a solution, it involve something i didn't even know was possible in haskell data Eff :: *- * where Pure :: Eff s Mut :: s - Eff s data EVector :: Eff * - * - * where PureVector :: S.Vector el - EVector Pure el MutVector :: SM.MVector s e - EVector