Type families returning quantified types
Is there a fundamental reason for not being able to use quantification in a type family? I'd very much like to be able to do it, obviously turning on RankNTypes if necessary.
I'm looking for things like this:
type family Foo (x :: Bool) where
Foo True = forall a. [a]
Foo False = ()Trac metadata
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