On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Ross Paterson <ross@soi.city.ac.uk> wrote:

GHC implements data kinds by promoting data declarations of a certain
restricted form, but I wonder if it would be better to have a special
syntax for kind definitions, say

data kind Nat = Zero | Succ Nat

At the moment, things get promoted whether you need them or not, and
if you've made some mistake that makes your definition non-promotable
you don't find out until you try to use it.

More importantly, a separate form for kinds would allow one to use
existing kinds, i.e. *, in definitions of new kinds.

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