#10776: DataKinds promotion of String -> Symbol and Natural -> Nat -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: htebalaka | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler (Type | Version: 7.10.2 checker) | Resolution: | Keywords: DataKinds Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by goldfire): Combining `Natural` and `Nat` seems straightforward. But `Symbol` and `String` are different: the former is not a list of characters. `Symbol` is much more like a promoted `Text` than a promoted `String`. And we might want the kind `String` to mean a type-level list of type-level characters someday. Even better than making progress on these small issues is to step back and come up with a plan for type-level literals of all stripes (floating-point numbers, characters, a promoted `Num` class of some sort?). I'm worried that small forays into this space will dig us into a local minimum from which we can't escape. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10776#comment:2 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler