undocumented feature in GHC-4.00?

1998-10-13 Thread Jeffrey R. Lewis
When attempting to reconstruct the syntax for existential quantification, I tried: newtype Groo a = Groo (Either a b) To my surprise, using ghc-4.00, this worked - without even using `-fglasgow-exts'. (it doesn't work, with or without `-fglasgow-exts' under 3.02) Then I read the release notes

Re: undocumented feature in GHC-4.00?

1998-10-13 Thread Jeffrey R. Lewis
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: When attempting to reconstruct the syntax for existential quantification, I tried: newtype Groo a = Groo (Either a b) To my surprise, using ghc-4.00, this worked - without even using `-fglasgow-exts'. (it doesn't work, with or without `-fglasgow-exts'