Re: [Haskell-cafe] explicit big lambdas

Alternatively: let f :: <some type involving a> f = ... f' :: a -> <some type involving a> f' _ = f in f' (undefined :: Int) <normal f arguments> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Max Bolingbroke wrote:

Hi Paul,

You should be able to introduce \Lambda at the source level by writing a type signature with an explicit "forall". Similarly you can then instantiate these \Lambdas by using a type signature which is an instance of the foralled type at the use site:

~~~ -- id will get a \Lambda in Core id :: forall a. a -> a id x = x

-- this use of id will have Int applied as the first type argument in Core main = print $ (id :: Int -> Int) 10 ~~~

This *should* extend smoothly to RankNTypes and other situations where GHC can't do good type inference.

The typechecker doesn't know about big lambdas (they are added to Core by the desugarer from the output of the typechecker) so there is no better way to do this AFAIK.

Cheers, Max

On 18 March 2010 15:07, Paul Brauner wrote:

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Hi again,

is there a way in some haskell extension to explicit (system F's) big lambdas and (term Type) applications in order to help type inference?

If not: is there a way to provide ghc directly with core code before the type checking phase?

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