| I want to make ByteArray# and MutableByteArray# parameterized over | their element types. ByteArray# would have kind # -> #, and | MutableByteArray#, * -> # -> # . indexByteArray# would have the type | (in pseudo haskell) forall (e::#). ByteArray# e -> Int# -> e. Probably a bad idea. The point is that you could then write polymorphic functions that would apparently work both on values of type Int# and Double#... but they are of different sizes. Seg-fault city! This stuff is not impossible. Microsoft's CLR allows exactly this, and compiles fresh code for each instantiation of a function at a type of different size or pointer-hood than the ones already compiled. But GHC does not do that, and won't anytime soon. The paper I wrote with John Launchbury "Unboxed types as first class citizens" elaborates, I think. Simon