The GHC manual already for quite a number of version states: • Arrow notation (see Section 7.17, “Arrow notation ”) uses whatever arr, (>>>), first, app, (|||) and loop functions are in scope. But unlike the other constructs, the types of these functions must match the Prelude types very closely. Details are in flux; if you want to use this, ask! When using this feature we get the error: "Var/Type length mismatch: [s{tv aVL} [tv]] [] ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 7.8.3 for x86_64-apple-darwin): tcTyVarDetails s{tv aVL} [tv] Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug" So our question is whether we should really report this as a bug, and/or what we can do about this. Thanks for your help, Doaitse