Clearly, `typeof` on its own fails the "ergonomic enough to use for simple cases" threshold we were shooting for. But it's also a significantly more powerful feature that introduces a *lot* of complications. We were able to implement a minimal version of RTN in a few days, demonstrating that it fits relatively naturally into the compiler's architecture and existing trait system. In contrast, integrating `typeof` would be rather more complicated. To start, we would need to be running the type checker in new contexts (e.g., in a where clause) at large scale in order to normalize a type like `typeof H::check(x, y)` into the final type it represents.
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