#11585: Overload the static form to reduce verbosity -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: | Owner: facundo.dominguez | facundo.dominguez Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.0.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Description changed by facundo.dominguez: @@ -16,2 +16,2 @@ - This is achieved by introducing the {{{IsStatic}}} type class and changing - the typing rule for static forms slightly: + This could be achieved by introducing the {{{IsStatic}}} type class and + changing the typing rule for static forms slightly: New description: Static pointers are rarely used naked: most often they are defined at the base of a {{{Closure}}}, as defined in e.g. the {{{distributed-closure}}} and {{{distributed-static}}} packages. So a typical usage pattern is: {{{ distributeMap (closure (static (\x -> x * 2))) }}} which is more verbose than it needs to be. Ideally we'd just have to write {{{ distributeMap (static (\x -> x * 2)) }}} and let the static pointer be lifted to a {{{Closure}}} implicitly. i.e. what we want is to overload static literals, just like we already overload list literals and string literals. This could be achieved by introducing the {{{IsStatic}}} type class and changing the typing rule for static forms slightly: {{{ static (e :: t) :: IsStatic p => p t }}} -- -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11585#comment:1 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler