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| author | Richard Eisenberg <rae@richarde.dev> | 2020-04-30 15:32:57 +0100 |
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| committer | Richard Eisenberg <rae@richarde.dev> | 2020-04-30 15:34:28 +0100 |
| commit | a9895ec7414bc752df14a168600cfc7a2e50d3da (patch) | |
| tree | 8cc60c63c2d31b4f15d7149493d8bb8e707e1fa0 | |
| parent | 518a63d4d7e31e49a81ad66d5e5ccb1f790f6de9 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-wip/the-flattening-story.tar.gz | |
Improve Note [The flattening story]wip/the-flattening-story
| -rw-r--r-- | compiler/GHC/Tc/Solver/Flatten.hs | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/GHC/Tc/Solver/Flatten.hs b/compiler/GHC/Tc/Solver/Flatten.hs index 551e1de395..006e7865c0 100644 --- a/compiler/GHC/Tc/Solver/Flatten.hs +++ b/compiler/GHC/Tc/Solver/Flatten.hs @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ import Control.Arrow ( first ) {- Note [The flattening story] -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * A CFunEqCan is either of form [G] <F xis> : F xis ~ fsk -- fsk is a FlatSkolTv [W] x : F xis ~ fmv -- fmv is a FlatMetaTv @@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ Note [The flattening story] - A unification flatten-skolem, fmv, stands for the as-yet-unknown type to which (F xis) will eventually reduce. It is filled in - + by dischargeFunEq, which calls unflattenFmv; this step will + happen during the interaction phase, after flattening. - All fsk/fmv variables are "untouchable". To make it simple to test, we simply give them TcLevel=0. This means that in a CTyVarEq, say, @@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ Note [The flattening story] a) The CFunEqCan takes a step, using an axiom b) By unflattenWanteds They are never unified in any other form of equality. - For example [W] ffmv ~ Int is stuck; it does not unify with fmv. + For example [W] fmv ~ Int is stuck; it does not unify with fmv. * We *never* substitute in the RHS (i.e. the fsk/fmv) of a CFunEqCan. That would destroy the invariant about the shape of a CFunEqCan, |