Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why can't I bind unlifted values at the top level?

On Jan 22, 2023, at 1:12 AM, David Feuer wrote:

That's what ML calls the "value restriction", right?

No, ML's value restriction is unrelated to this conversation. ML's value restriction says that all polymorphic variables (top-level or otherwise) must syntactically be values -- not, say, function calls. The "value-ness" check might end up similar, but the motivations are distinct. Richard