On December 28, 2016 7:27:20 PM EST, Conal Elliott <co...@conal.net> wrote:
>Hi, George. Yes, please do add a task, hopefully to serve as a
>conversation
>anchor until the issues and path forward are clearer. From my
>perspective,
>class methods are among the most natural and useful candidates for
>rewrite
>rules, since they tend to have associated laws, many (but not all) of
>which
>are helpful in optimization. The alternative I know (and am using) is
>fairly inconvenient: replicating entire APIs just in order to delay
>inlining long enough to apply rules.
>
Indeed, we could eliminate several hundred lines of boilerplate in GHC if we 
could lift this restriction. 

Cheers, 

- Ben 


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