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[TM-307] No (&) in types

Konstantin Ivanov requested to merge martoon/tm307-no-&-in-types into master

Description

Problem: using (&) type operator (used in types of instructions) is not too convenient, when it comes to error messages GHC tends to wrap these in paretheses. Compare:

Integer & (Natural & (MText & s))

against

Integer : Natural : MText : s

Solution: stop using (&) in basic Lorentz methods.

We do not remove or deprecate it because someone may find it neater despite the problems it causes. But making the base library cause hardly-readable error messages is not an option.

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