Dear all,
I wanted to voice support for a partial type annotations. Here's my usage scenario: I have a monad for an imperative EDSL, which has an associated expression data type,
class (Monad m, Expression (ExprTyp m)) => MyDSLMonad m where
data ExprTyp m :: * -> *
and you write imperative EDSL code like so,
my_code_block = do
x <- instruction1
y <- instruction2 (x + x)
...
I want the user to be able to annotate "x is an Integer". However, to do that now, one has to now add a type signature for my_code_block like so, so that the $m$ variable is in scope,
my_code_block :: forall m. MyDSLMonad m => m ()
my_code_block = do
x :: ExprTyp m Integer <- instruction1
...
If such a feature were available, one could write a nice type synonym "Expr" and use it like so,
type Expr a = ExprTyp _ a
my_code_block = do
x :: Expr Integer <- instruction1
Suggestions for workarounds are appreciated. I created an `asExprTypeOf`, similar to Prelude's `asExprTyp`, but I don't like the syntax as much.
Some previous discussion