On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 03:36, Ovidiu Deac <ovidiudeac@gmail.com> wrote:
I kind of understand what you mean but I don't understand why would
anybody want this functionality.

Nobody else does these days either, which is why I added
 
> Common wisdom these days is to disable the monomorphism restriction when
> working with ghci; there's a growing belief that it has outlived its
> usefulness.

IIUC it used to make typechecking take too long.
 
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