{-# LANGUAGE Haskell2010 #-} {-# LANGUAGE RankNTypes #-} {- From: Ralf Hinze Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 15:20:51 +0200 (MET DST) I *suppose* that there is a bug in GHC's type checker. The following program, which I think is ill-typed, passes silently the type checker. Needless to say that it uses some of GHC's arcane type extensions. -} module ShouldFail where data ContT m a = KContT (forall res. (a -> m res) -> m res) unKContT (KContT x) = x callcc :: ((a -> ContT m b) -> ContT m a) -> ContT m a callcc f = KContT (\cont -> unKContT (f (\a -> KContT (\cont' -> cont a))) cont) {- `ContT' is a continuation monad transformer. Note that we locally qualify over the result type `res' (sometimes called answer or output). IMHO this make it impossible to define control constructs like `callcc'. Let's have a closer look: the code of `callcc' contains the subexpression `KContT (\cont' -> cont a)'. To be well-typed the argument of `KContT' must have the type `(All res) => (a -> m res) -> m res'. Quantification is not possible, however, since the type variable in `cont's type cannot be forall'd, since it also appears at an outer level. Right? Or wrong? -}