#9123: Need for higher kinded roles -------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: simonpj | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment (by goldfire): Just wrote up [wiki:Roles2 this wiki page] describing the design and laying out some challenges. The page includes a pie-in-the-sky idea for a new design for roles that might fix this problem, at the cost of quite a bit more complexity. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9123#comment:10 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler