
9 Feb
2006
9 Feb
'06
1:29 a.m.
Hi - I've been puzzling over section 7.4.9.3 of the ghc users manual for the past few months (!) and still can't understand why the following is an illegal type: forall a. ((Ord a => a-> a) -> Int) whereas (forall a. Ord a => a->a) -> Int is legal. I can understand why the second one *is* legal but I can't seem to understand why the first syntax is not just exactly the same thing even though the parse tree is different. Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks, Brian.