| The more I think about it, I think 'superclass' is just the wrong
| terminology for dealing with class aliases. Superclass implies a strict
| partial order on classes, which just isn't the case for class aliases,
| for instance
|
| > class alias Foo a => Foo a = Bar a where ...
Crumbs! I have no idea what that means! Did you really mean to repeat "Foo"?
According to your expansion in type signatures
f :: (Foo a) => ...
expands to
f :: (Foo a, Bar a) => ...
which presumably expands again. I'm totally lost here
Have a look at my last message, which gives a variant of your desugaring that
IMHO greatly clarifies the meaning of (what I understand by) aliases.
Simon
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