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Re:GHC 8.0.1 is available by johncolanduoni on Sunday May 22, 2016 @08:56AM (#11748430)
Idris[1] already has a working system for this, and it's type system is more complicated (it has much more support for dependent typing). It allows this principle for regular function names as well.

[1]: http://www.idris-lang.org/

Re:GHC 8.0.1 is available by eru on Sunday May 22, 2016 @07:10PM (#11750692)
Thanks! I'm glad we have a working model we can probably copy from.