If and when that feature lands would it be possible to use it to bypass a current limitation in class associated types?

Notably if a class associated type has a more general kind, we currently can't give a default definition for it that has a tighter kind.

e.g. I have some classes which are technically polykinded but where 90% of the instances instantiate that kind as *. The status quo prevents me from putting in a type default that would only be valid when the kind argument is *.

-Edward

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 8:21 PM, Richard Eisenberg <eir@cis.upenn.edu> wrote:

On Mar 8, 2016, at 7:17 PM, Evan Austin <e.c.austin@gmail.com> wrote:

The wiki page for Phase I of Dependent Haskell describes an approach to constrained type families:

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/DependentHaskell/Phase1#Typefamilyequationscanbeconstrained

Did that land in GHC 8.0 and, if so, is the updated syntax documented somewhere?

No, it didn't make it. The motivating test case seemed contrived and so we punted on this one.

Do you have a use case that really needs this feature? That would help to motivate it for 8.2 or beyond.

Thanks!

Richard

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