Dear all,

Johannes Waldmann wrote:

> So, what about making type signatures mandatory,
> as the rest of the civilized world does happily for decades ...

Given that explicit type signatures increasingly are required
for dealing with other aspects (polymorphic recursion,
rank 2-or-higher polymorphism, GADTs ...) that would
seem reasonable.

Personally, though, I have to admit that I've never had
all that much problems with the M-R restriction in the
first place. Probably because I do write top-level
type signatures as soon as I get into serious programming.

That said, I do find it convenient that type signatures
can be omitted.

And I wonder if this is a sufficiently significant problem
to warrant breaking backwards compatibility in this respect.

All the best,

/Henrik

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Henrik Nilsson
School of Computer Science and Information Technology
The University of Nottingham
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