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authorRichard Eisenberg <rae@richarde.dev>2020-04-29 17:14:53 +0100
committerMarge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org>2020-05-06 04:39:32 -0400
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Refactor hole constraints.
Previously, holes (both expression holes / out of scope variables and partial-type-signature wildcards) were emitted as *constraints* via the CHoleCan constructor. While this worked fine for error reporting, there was a fair amount of faff in keeping these constraints in line. In particular, and unlike other constraints, we could never change a CHoleCan to become CNonCanonical. In addition: * the "predicate" of a CHoleCan constraint was really the type of the hole, which is not a predicate at all * type-level holes (partial type signature wildcards) carried evidence, which was never used * tcNormalise (used in the pattern-match checker) had to create a hole constraint just to extract it again; it was quite messy The new approach is to record holes directly in WantedConstraints. It flows much more nicely now. Along the way, I did some cleaning up of commentary in GHC.Tc.Errors.Hole, which I had a hard time understanding. This was instigated by a future patch that will refactor the way predicates are handled. The fact that CHoleCan's "predicate" wasn't really a predicate is incompatible with that future patch. No test case, because this is meant to be purely internal. It turns out that this change improves the performance of the pattern-match checker, likely because fewer constraints are sloshing about in tcNormalise. I have not investigated deeply, but an improvement is not a surprise here: ------------------------- Metric Decrease: PmSeriesG -------------------------
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