i think that thats only expressible with the style of parsing that agda mix
fix does, and for a variety of reasons I'm somewhat skeptical of the same
being viable for ghc for the forseeable future.
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Greg Weber
I had an idea whose goal is to ease people into Foldable, Traversable, etc. There could be a notation that shows the generalization that is occurring.
map :: Functor [_] => (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]
This means that the syntax for the list type is now syntax for the variable created by the Functor constraint.
Adding such a thing to the language is probably not a good idea, but someone might possibly like such a notation for pedagogy. Of course, it will be pointed out that a Functor is not just a container. But Foldable is sometimes expressed as "anything that toList can be called on", so it should make sense there.
Greg Weber
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