On 29 April 2015 at 10:36, Jon Zeppieri <[email protected]> wrote:

> It was an good talk, but I was (and still am) confused by the
> speaker's concern with the anti-modularity of implicits, given that
> he's advocating global instance coherence, which is inherently
> anti-modular.
>

​Sure.

See, I think that the direction Idris is going now, where you can label
injective arguments, describing how your instance is discoverable, may give
the best of both worlds, and that it's possibly a good area of research.
So I want to get to know what the typeclass camp see as the concern with
implicits, and I've had a really hard time figuring that out.  Edward
describes his intuition about it, and that's something I'm always prepared
to listen to.

He represents the "smart people that I disagree with but want to enable"
bucket in this discussion.

-- 
William Leslie

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