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Sexy types<br />

Haskell has become a laboratory and<br />

playground for advanced type hackery<br />

Polymorphic recursion<br />

Higher kinded type variables<br />

data T k a = T a (k (T k a))<br />

Polymorphic functions as constructor arguments<br />

data T = MkT (forall a. [a] -> [a])<br />

Polymorphic functions as arbitrary function<br />

arguments (higher ranked types)<br />

f :: (forall a. [a]->[a]) -> ...<br />

Existential types<br />

data T = exists a. Show a => MkT a

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