Re: The dreaded M-R

Benjamin Franksen wrote:

My personal opinion is that it should be exactly the other way around:

All normal bindings (i.e. using '=') should be as polymorphic and general as possible.

Do you mean *all* bindings, or only top-level ones? If you really mean all, wouldn't e be polymorphic (with type Num a=>a) in, say:

f x = e + e where e = very_expensive_polymorphic_function x

That would be a Very Bad Thing. Twan