8 Jul
2009
8 Jul
'09
4:55 a.m.
On 07/07/2009 20:17, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
| There are a couple sensible removals here. Do we also want to get rid | of the useless class contexts on data-declarations? (that look like | "data Ord a => Set a = Set ...")
Yes! Yes! Kill them.
(In GHC's source code these contexts are consistently called stupid_theta.)
This is listed as "Remove class context on data definitions" in the list of proposals. It doesn't have an owner or a wiki page yet. Any volunteers? Cheers, Simon