The name "demote" is only meaningful to those who already know what
the Cryptol primitive does. Also, due to recent changes in the error
and warning messages, the name "demote" is showing up much more often
in REPL output. For example:
Defaulting type argument 'rep' of 'demote' to [2]
Showing a specific instance of polymorphic result:
* Using 'Integer' for type argument 'rep' of 'Cryptol::demote'
These messages will hopefully be made less confusing to non-experts
if the name "demote" is replaced with "number".
When `:set mono-binds=on`, any local definitions lacking type
signatures will not be generalized (i.e., will be monomorphic). This
reduces what is in most cases unnecessary polymorphism that can give
rise to constraints that are difficult to solve. This also improves
the performance of the Cryptol interpreter by lifting many polymorphic
type applications out of the inner loops that are commonly defined as
bindings in `where` clauses.
The flag is on by default in the Cryptol REPL, and in most cases makes
it possible to leave out more type signatures in `where` clauses than
before. However, some programs really do rely on inferring polymorphic
types for local variables; in this case adding an explicit polymorphic
type signature to the local binding in question will make the program
typecheck.
