Re: [Haskell-cafe] Eta Reduction

I stand corrected. So they were there all along and then finally briefly had a reason to exist later on. ;) -Edward On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Dan Doel wrote:

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Edward Kmett wrote:

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This is where the data type contexts came from. They were originally motivated by the needs of the no-longer existent Seq class, and then subverted to make Complex less useful than it otherwise could be. ;)

This is wrong. Data type contexts existed in the Haskell 1.0 report, and Ratio and Complex used them there. Strict fields didn't exist until 1.3.

-- Dan