Jon Pretty

@propensive hmm. this is clever and not obviously unethical ... trying to remember if I have ever wanted to do this.

@tpolecat @propensive not obviously ethical either if you ask me ;) I'm curious of the use case?

@aloiscochard @tpolecat Sometimes we don't want to have to specify the type parameter, e.g. "extract a String unless I specify otherwise".

@propensive @tpolecat do you have something really concrete, I mean a RealWorld(c) example? what that function you describe do?

@aloiscochard @tpolecat Yeah, exactly the example I gave, but extracting a parameter from an HTTP request, or from the command line...

@propensive @tpolecat there is no good default for a HTTP parameter, `String` don't look like a good default to me, that should be inferred.