RE: The monomorphism restriction and monomorphic pattern bindings

| The report doesn't actually mention this translation although it is | widely used to implement pattern bindings, and in some compilers (not | GHC) the translation is done before type checking. | | What's interesting to me is that perhaps this gives us a way to | understand what the static semantics of pattern bindings should be, | absent MPB. e.g. Yes, that's a fine point. If this became the formal definition of the *static* semantics of pattern bindings, that would be a significant improvement, because it'd give us a precise way to answer the various questions I asked. (We might or might not like the answers, but at least we could answer them.) Simon