[Agda] Re: Why aren't free vars in types automatically generalized

[Nils Anders Danielsson]

On 2009-03-31 16:29, Andreas Abel wrote:

> bla1, bla2, bla3 are system-generated names, and consequently, the
> corresponding implicit arguments cannot be passed explicitely.
> 
>    lemma {bla1 = Bool} ...
> 
> is illegal.

I think any scheme in which it is not always possible to pass implicit
arguments explicitly will either lead to frustration or to programmers
only using the feature in such a way that the arguments can be given if
needed.

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/NAD

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