Hello, Sorry, I made a mistake, the version of 'repeat :: Proxy n -> a -> Vector n a' won't work either, as Andres noticed, because `Proxy` still won't give you information about how many times to repeat. You'd have to use a structured singleton family, where the values are linked to the types: data SNat :: Nat -> * where SZero :: SNat Zero SSucc :: SNat n -> SNat (Succ n) repeat :: SNat n -> a -> Vector n a Apologies for the confusion, -Iavor On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Andres Löh <andres.loeh@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Iavor.
If you don't want to use the class system, you could write `repeat` with a type like this:
repeat :: Proxy n -> a -> Vector n a
(`Proxy` is the singleton family 'data Proxy n = Proxy`).
How is the polymorphism becoming any less parametric by using this particular Proxy type?
Cheers, Andres