Re: only explicit universal quantification

2006-03-15 Thread John Meacham
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 06:02:56PM +0100, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > what about dropping implicit universal quantification of type variables from > the language, meaning that every universal quantification has to be made > explicit? I had a somewhat halfway idea for that, make explicit quantifica

Re: only explicit universal quantification

2006-03-13 Thread Ashley Yakeley
Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: what about dropping implicit universal quantification of type variables from the language, meaning that every universal quantification has to be made explicit? I like this idea, but perhaps it should be a warning option to the compiler (which can be enforced with -Wer

only explicit universal quantification

2006-03-13 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Hello, what about dropping implicit universal quantification of type variables from the language, meaning that every universal quantification has to be made explicit? One advantage of this would be that spelling mistakes in type variables would be detected by the compiler more often since ever