That is more consistent, but it leaves no room to intersperse auxiliary definitions, which strikes me as unfortunate for practical reasons.

On Feb 18, 2016 5:43 AM, "Tobias Florek" <haskell@ibotty.net> wrote:
Hi.

For consistency reasons, I'd love to write the following, possibly even
omiting the closed keyword.

> {-# LANGUAGE ClosedClasses #-}
> closed class Closed a b where
>   fun :: a -> b -> Int
>   instance Closed Int y where fun x _ = x
>   instance Closed x Int where fun _ y = y
>   instance Closed x y where fun _ _ = 0

I guess, that's already bikeshedding.

Cheers,
 Tobias Florek
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