On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Sean Leather <leather@cs.uu.nl> wrote:

We discovered that GHC and GHCi (7.4.1) accept promoted types without specifying language extensions (and even when specifying -XHaskell98).

For example, promoted lists are accepted:

Prelude> type T = [Int,Char]
Prelude> :i T
type T = (:) * Int ((:) * Char ([] *))
-- Defined at <interactive>:2:6

This is rejected in 7.6.1:

<interactive>:2:10:
Illegal type: '[Int, Char] Perhaps you intended to use -XDataKinds

Also, promoted datatypes:

> data N = Z
> type T = 'Z

This isn't rejected, but I guess it should, indeed.

Thanks,
Pedro

I'm guessing you can't use these types anywhere (since they are not kind *), so they won't be very useful, but it seems like this should be disallowed.

Regards,
Sean

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