Edit Roles authored by Edward Z. Yang's avatar Edward Z. Yang
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The idea of *roles* comes from the paper [ Generative Type Abstraction and Type-level Computation](http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~sweirich/papers/popl163af-weirich.pdf), published at POPL 2011. The implementation of roles in GHC, however, is somewhat different than stated in that paper. This page focuses on the user-visible features of roles.
Role annotations are enabled using `{-# LANGUAGE RoleAnnotations #-}`.
See also
- Our ICFP 2014 paper [ Safe Coercions](http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~eir/papers/2014/coercible/coercible-ext.pdf), which gives lots of motivation and details, including the `Coercible` class.
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