RE: My head just exploded too.

1999-12-07 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| > So that's two type-system things that would make your life easier. | > | > - how bad is it to use case? | | The existing alternatives are pretty easily liveable-with (though case | happens to be my least favoured option), they just seem odd | as restrictions, and look a tad peculiar. |

RE: My head just exploded too.

1999-12-06 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| Although I'd read the restriction in advance, I nevertheless | unwittingly | contrived to try and write a binding-group style pattern-match against | an existentially quantified data constructor. Oops. (Actually, I did | it twice, what's worse...) I can imagine this is indeed an irksome | th

RE: My head just exploded too.

1999-12-06 Thread Alex Ferguson
Me: > | Although I'd read the restriction in advance, I nevertheless > | unwittingly > | contrived to try and write a binding-group style pattern-match against > | an existentially quantified data constructor. Oops. (Actually, I did > | it twice, what's worse...) I can imagine this is indeed