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by aatd86 223 days ago
Not sure, either : Parametric polymorphism is compile time. Adding runtime behaviors is a sort of escape hatch.

Which is fair although necessary. It's not so much a breakage as it is a necessity, since non parametric code may rely on this too.

Or maybe it is about constrained parametricity. In any case this doesn't seem a big issue.