Given data GhcPass (c :: Pass) deriving instance Eq (GhcPass c) deriving instance Typeable c => Data (GhcPass c) data Pass = Parsed | Renamed | Typechecked deriving (Data) Is there any way to express that `pass` must be valid for each value of `Pass` in the following instance head? instance (p ~ GhcPass pass, OutputableBndrId p) => Outputable (HsIPBinds p) where This comes from a problem where setting each type family instance separately does not get picked up during instance resolution (and can't be, according to earlier questions by me on this) i.e. type instance XIPBinds (GhcPass 'Parsed) = NoExt type instance XIPBinds (GhcPass 'Renamed) = NoExt type instance XIPBinds (GhcPass 'Typechecked) = TcEvBinds it works fine for type instance XIPBinds (GhcPass _) = NoExt Alan