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authorChaitanya Koparkar <ckoparkar@gmail.com>2019-01-14 14:36:29 -0500
committerMarge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org>2019-01-20 05:24:59 -0500
commit800d77e882f24066a7f6d818b2606ad8a0e79e02 (patch)
tree6e7d9b4673499c1cb29214641571f27e8c32a2e8 /compiler
parentb137ab75ab269e043e0783e41ac704d1be5570c6 (diff)
downloadhaskell-800d77e882f24066a7f6d818b2606ad8a0e79e02.tar.gz
Mention DerivingStrategies in the warning when DAC and GND are both enabled
Summary: When DeriveAnyClass and GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving are both enabled, GHC prints out a warning that specifies the strategy it used to derive a class. This patch updates the warning to mention that users may pick a particular strategy by using DerivingStrategies. Test plan: make test TEST=T16179
Diffstat (limited to 'compiler')
-rw-r--r--compiler/typecheck/TcDeriv.hs5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/typecheck/TcDeriv.hs b/compiler/typecheck/TcDeriv.hs
index 90b230a972..6078a7a7ff 100644
--- a/compiler/typecheck/TcDeriv.hs
+++ b/compiler/typecheck/TcDeriv.hs
@@ -1640,7 +1640,10 @@ mkNewTypeEqn
[ text "Both DeriveAnyClass and"
<+> text "GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving are enabled"
, text "Defaulting to the DeriveAnyClass strategy"
- <+> text "for instantiating" <+> ppr cls ]
+ <+> text "for instantiating" <+> ppr cls
+ , text "Use DerivingStrategies to pick"
+ <+> text "a different strategy"
+ ]
mk_originative_eqn DerivSpecAnyClass
-- CanDeriveStock
CanDeriveStock gen_fn -> mk_originative_eqn $