On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 8:49:13 PM UTC, Rupert Smith wrote:
>
> This would seem to make extensible records a lot less useful than they 
> could be. Is this one of those cases where an existential qualifier would 
> be needed to specify the type of the function? Or is this in fact a case 
> that could be typed in Elm without problem and that the type checker should 
> accept?
>

Or to put it another way, is this a case that could type check just fine 
and not lead to a runtime error in the program, but is not allowed because 
it would break the type inference algorithm?

If it can both type check and infer, then it should be allowed.

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