That sounds like a bug/oversight! Is that not fixed in 9.2? On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 11:08 PM David Feuer <david.fe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> `Char` is defined in user code. What you really can't define are Char# and > TYPE, and you can't modify `RuntimeRep`. Speaking of `Char#`, I see that in > 9.0, at least, it has kind TYPE 'WordRep. Why is that not Word32Rep? > > On Mon, Apr 5, 2021, 10:50 PM Richard Eisenberg <r...@richarde.dev> wrote: > >> >> >> On Apr 1, 2021, at 8:12 PM, Anthony Clayden <anthony_clay...@clear.net.nz> >> wrote: >> >> Can I user-define a conventional type-class that behaves more like `(~)`? >> >> >> I don't think so. >> >> But why does this matter? I can't define `Char` in user code, but it's >> exported from the Prelude and requires no extensions. While I can define Eq >> in user code, I can't make `deriving` work with my version. I can't define >> `error` in user code. There are many others, I'm sure. >> >> So: why does this matter? >> >> Thanks, >> Richard >> _______________________________________________ >> Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list >> Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users >> > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users >
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