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author | Ryan Scott <ryan.gl.scott@gmail.com> | 2020-03-24 18:44:08 -0400 |
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committer | Marge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org> | 2020-03-29 17:33:20 -0400 |
commit | a0d8e92e9c9b67426aa139d6bc46363d8940f992 (patch) | |
tree | 9fdca21dbaae8f20633d3673a3750be866b851f5 /compiler/utils/GraphOps.hs | |
parent | 64bf7f51064dad9c63728ac8bccdb9cf00bdb420 (diff) | |
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Run checkNewDataCon before constraint-solving newtype constructors
Within `checkValidDataCon`, we used to run `checkValidType` on the
argument types of a newtype constructor before running
`checkNewDataCon`, which ensures that the user does not attempt
non-sensical things such as newtypes with multiple arguments or
constraints. This works out in most situations, but this falls over
on a corner case revealed in #17955:
```hs
newtype T = Coercible () T => T ()
```
`checkValidType`, among other things, peforms an ambiguity check on
the context of a data constructor, and that it turn invokes the
constraint solver. It turns out that there is a special case in the
constraint solver for representational equalities (read: `Coercible`
constraints) that causes newtypes to be unwrapped (see
`Note [Unwrap newtypes first]` in `TcCanonical`). This special case
does not know how to cope with an ill formed newtype like `T`, so
it ends up panicking.
The solution is surprisingly simple: just invoke `checkNewDataCon`
before `checkValidType` to ensure that the illicit newtype
constructor context is detected before the constraint solver can
run amok with it.
Fixes #17955.
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