On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:44 PM, David Menendez <d...@zednenem.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Andrew Wagner <wagner.and...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm sure there's a way to do this, but it's escaping me at present. I
> want
> > to do something like this:
> >
> > data Foo = Bar a => Foo a Bool ...
> >
> > That is, I want to create a new type, Foo, whose constructor takes both a
> > Boolean and a value of a type of class Bar.
>
> Try this:
>
> {-# LANGUAGE ExistentialQuantification #-}
>
> data Foo = forall a. Bar a => Foo a Bool
Though for existentials, I find GADT more natural (actually I find GADT more
natural in most cases):
data Foo where
Foo :: Bar a => a -> Foo
Luke
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