Document change in implicit quantification
Simon's big wildcard refactor (1e041b73) changed the way GHC does implicit quantification. I don't see documentation for this, however. (That patch doesn't touch the manual, and there are no release notes, at least.)
This report was prompted by this Haskell-Café post, where Tom Ellis asks why we need
-data PackMap a b s t = PackMap (Applicative f => (a -> f b) -> s -> f t)
+data PackMap a b s t = PackMap (forall f. Applicative f => (a -> f b) -> s -> f t)
to update for 8.0.
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| Priority | high |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
| Component | Documentation |
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