Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types

David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> >2. does anybody have an idea how to attack it?
> 
> Why can't anyelement be freed from this constraint?

Because it would break other uses of it, I think.  IIRC the original use
of anyelement was that it would resolve to the element type of an
anyarray argument-or-return type.

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