This doesn't work because 'm' and 'S m' aren't equal, but they're also not NOT equal, so Haskell never gets past the first clause of IsConstPlus:
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@cyrridven yeah you're gonna wanna recurse all the way down to the base case

@lambdagrrl honestly, if Haskell allows me two write infinite types like 'S (S (S ...))' then why not infinite pattern matches?

@lambdagrrl I've been wanting to actually try and construct one, 'cuz I think it should be possible if GHC can be persuaded not to unroll 'type family Inf where Inf = S Inf' too much.

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@cyrridven jesus. Haskell was a mistake πŸ™ƒ

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@lambdagrrl I mean, Haskell was fine. It's just that we're trying to turn a cute little Hindley-Milner type system into EVERY. TYPE. SYSTEM.

@cyrridven "actually, Haskell is the name of the language conforming to the Haskell 98 Report. the name of the language compiled by GHC is 'Haskell's Monster'"

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