On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 12:05:46PM +0000, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
Prompted by recent discussion on the Hat mailing list about the problems of type-defaulting, I have added two new proposals for this issue to the Haskell-prime wiki at:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/Defaulting
I don't see a proposal to remove defaulting defaulting altogether on that page - has that been discussed already? Am I the only one who puts an explicit type signature in whenever my compiler warns me that it is having to do some defaulting? And probably 99% of those would be unnecessary if (^)'s second argument was an Int, with a genericPower (or whatever) function providing the current type signature (analogous to, for example, (!!) and genericIndex). Defaulting is one wart I would be glad to be rid of. Thanks Ian