Re: [Haskell-cafe] what is a difference between existential quantification and polymorhic field?

2006-09-21 Thread Bruno Oliveira
Hello Bullat, >> also, ghc66 adds impredicative polymorphism. how it differs from >> unqualified existentials? > I have not tried ghc66, but I think one of the things you should be able to > do and that > is perhaps helpful for understanding existencial is: > > > myList :: [forall a . Num a =>

Re: [Haskell-cafe] what is a difference between existential quantification and polymorhic field?

2006-09-21 Thread Bruno Oliveira
Hello Bullat, >now i'm reading Haskell' proposals and found that these two things >considered as different: > >http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/ExistentialQuantification >http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/PolymorphicComponents > >can you please explain

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] what is a difference between existential quantification and polymorhic field?

2006-09-21 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Ross, Thursday, September 21, 2006, 12:55:40 PM, you wrote: >> data Ex = forall a. Num a => Ex a >> >> and >> >> data Po = Po (forall a. Num a => a) > Consider the types of the constructors: > Ex :: forall a. (Num a) => a -> Ex > Po :: (forall a. (Num a) => a) -> Po sorry, Ross, can y

Re: [Haskell-cafe] what is a difference between existential quantification and polymorhic field?

2006-09-21 Thread Ross Paterson
[apologies to Bulat for the repeat posting] On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:05:23PM +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > now i'm reading Haskell' proposals and found that these two things > considered as different: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/ExistentialQuantification > http://ha

[Haskell-cafe] what is a difference between existential quantification and polymorhic field?

2006-09-21 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello haskell-cafe, now i'm reading Haskell' proposals and found that these two things considered as different: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/ExistentialQuantification http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/PolymorphicComponents can you please explain me what is