#9429: Alternative to type family Any -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: mboes | Owner: Type: feature | Status: new request | Milestone: Priority: normal | Version: 7.9 Component: Compiler | Keywords: Resolution: | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Operating System: | Difficulty: Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Blocked By: Type of failure: | Related Tickets: 9097, 9380 None/Unknown | Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by goldfire): It's not clear to me that Ryan's and Johan's uses are in conflict with the `Any` change. `Any` is still around and still usable in HEAD. It just can't appear in a type pattern -- that is, on the LHS of a type family equation or in an instance head. Is `Any` used in this way in the programs cited above? In particular, it assuredly ''is'' still possible to cast to `Any` and then cast back. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9429#comment:17 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler