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authorRichard Eisenberg <rae@richarde.dev>2021-11-22 17:34:32 -0500
committerSimon Peyton Jones <simon.peytonjones@gmail.com>2023-01-11 08:30:42 +0000
commitaed1974e92366ab8e117734f308505684f70cddf (patch)
treebbfe7fdd00f1e0ef8dacdcf8d070a07efa38561b /compiler/GHC/Tc/Utils/Unify.hs
parent083f701553852c4460159cd6deb2515d3373714d (diff)
downloadhaskell-wip/T20666.tar.gz
Refactor the treatment of loopy superclass dictswip/T20666
This patch completely re-engineers how we deal with loopy superclass dictionaries in instance declarations. It fixes #20666 and #19690 The highlights are * Recognise that the loopy-superclass business should use precisely the Paterson conditions. This is much much nicer. See Note [Recursive superclasses] in GHC.Tc.TyCl.Instance * With that in mind, define "Paterson-smaller" in Note [Paterson conditions] in GHC.Tc.Validity, and the new data type `PatersonSize` in GHC.Tc.Utils.TcType, along with functions to compute and compare PatsonSizes * Use the new PatersonSize stuff when solving superclass constraints See Note [Solving superclass constraints] in GHC.Tc.TyCl.Instance * In GHC.Tc.Solver.Monad.lookupInInerts, add a missing call to prohibitedSuperClassSolve. This was the original cause of #20666. * Treat (TypeError "stuff") as having PatersonSize zero. See Note [Paterson size for type family applications] in GHC.Tc.Utils.TcType. * Treat the head of a Wanted quantified constraint in the same way as the superclass of an instance decl; this is what fixes #19690. See GHC.Tc.Solver.Canonical Note [Solving a Wanted forall-constraint] (Thanks to Matthew Craven for this insight.) This entailed refactoring the GivenSc constructor of CtOrigin a bit, to say whether it comes from an instance decl or quantified constraint. * Some refactoring way in which redundant constraints are reported; we don't want to complain about the extra, apparently-redundant constraints that we must add to an instance decl because of the loopy-superclass thing. I moved some work from GHC.Tc.Errors to GHC.Tc.Solver. * Add a new section to the user manual to describe the loopy superclass issue and what rules it follows.
Diffstat (limited to 'compiler/GHC/Tc/Utils/Unify.hs')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/GHC/Tc/Utils/Unify.hs b/compiler/GHC/Tc/Utils/Unify.hs
index 41faa2fece..eea0ed95ef 100644
--- a/compiler/GHC/Tc/Utils/Unify.hs
+++ b/compiler/GHC/Tc/Utils/Unify.hs
@@ -1477,8 +1477,8 @@ tcSkolemiseScoped ctxt expected_ty thing_inside
= do { deep_subsumption <- xoptM LangExt.DeepSubsumption
; let skolemise | deep_subsumption = deeplySkolemise
| otherwise = topSkolemise
- ; -- This (unpleasant) rec block allows us to pass skol_info to deeplySkolemise;
- -- but skol_info can't be built until we have tv_prs
+ ; -- rec {..}: see Note [Keeping SkolemInfo inside a SkolemTv]
+ -- in GHC.Tc.Utils.TcType
rec { (wrap, tv_prs, given, rho_ty) <- skolemise skol_info expected_ty
; skol_info <- mkSkolemInfo (SigSkol ctxt expected_ty tv_prs) }
@@ -1495,7 +1495,9 @@ tcTopSkolemise ctxt expected_ty thing_inside
= do { res <- thing_inside expected_ty
; return (idHsWrapper, res) }
| otherwise
- = do { rec { (wrap, tv_prs, given, rho_ty) <- topSkolemise skol_info expected_ty
+ = do { -- rec {..}: see Note [Keeping SkolemInfo inside a SkolemTv]
+ -- in GHC.Tc.Utils.TcType
+ rec { (wrap, tv_prs, given, rho_ty) <- topSkolemise skol_info expected_ty
; skol_info <- mkSkolemInfo (SigSkol ctxt expected_ty tv_prs) }
; let skol_tvs = map snd tv_prs