Re: The dreaded M-R

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:06:29PM +0100, lennart@augustsson.net wrote:

Quoting Andrew Pimlott :

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In the present case, people aren't (only) opposing the M-R out of principle, but because they actually use overloaded variable definitions and (at least sometimes) want to leave off the signature. So I don't see how one could claim, as on the wiki, the warning "wouldn't happen much". I suspect it would happen, and annoy people, and defeat the reason that people want to remove the M-R.

So I envisage that you'd turn off the warning in the same way as you turn off the M-R today: by a type signature.

But if people were happy adding type signatures for every polymorphic variable definition, they wouldn't be moving to eliminate the M-R, would they? Or do I misunderstand? Andrew