Yes, you could I suppose. But then there'd be a different peculiar change in behaviour at arity 7. I'm not sure that'd be an advantage.
Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: Simon Marlow | Sent: 10 August 2005 10:58 | To: Simon Peyton-Jones; Frank Huch; glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org | Subject: RE: Deriving Typeable instances | | On 09 August 2005 17:16, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | | > I'm not against this, although you can work around the problem by | > adding a library that defines the missing type classes (Typeable8, | > Typeable9 etc), and making your compiler generate the instance | > itself. There is nothing magic about 'deriving'; it's just | > convenient. | | If the arity is >7, couldn't we just generate a Typeable instance, rather than the TypeableN instance? | It would mean you wouldn't get the benefits of TypeableN, but at least you'd have Typeable. | | Cheers, | Simon _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list Glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
