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author | Ryan Scott <ryan.gl.scott@gmail.com> | 2020-07-16 14:04:28 -0400 |
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committer | Marge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org> | 2020-07-30 07:11:37 -0400 |
commit | 01c948eba4bea2d2c8ad340e12c1e7b732b334f7 (patch) | |
tree | 24d79117dd80af9d4c9b9d7f4c23c39bf335b260 /compiler/GHC/Tc | |
parent | 502de55676a38572db60848c13392f5f115e1c8a (diff) | |
download | haskell-01c948eba4bea2d2c8ad340e12c1e7b732b334f7.tar.gz |
Clean up the inferred type variable restriction
This patch primarily:
* Documents `checkInferredVars` (previously called
`check_inferred_vars`) more carefully. This is the
function which throws an error message if a user quantifies an
inferred type variable in a place where specificity cannot be
observed. See `Note [Unobservably inferred type variables]` in
`GHC.Rename.HsType`.
Note that I now invoke `checkInferredVars` _alongside_
`rnHsSigType`, `rnHsWcSigType`, etc. rather than doing so _inside_
of these functions. This results in slightly more call sites for
`checkInferredVars`, but it makes it much easier to enumerate the
spots where the inferred type variable restriction comes into
effect.
* Removes the inferred type variable restriction for default method
type signatures, per the discussion in #18432. As a result, this
patch fixes #18432.
Along the way, I performed some various cleanup:
* I moved `no_nested_foralls_contexts_err` into `GHC.Rename.Utils`
(under the new name `noNestedForallsContextsErr`), since it now
needs to be invoked from multiple modules. I also added a helper
function `addNoNestedForallsContextsErr` that throws the error
message after producing it, as this is a common idiom.
* In order to ensure that users cannot sneak inferred type variables
into `SPECIALISE instance` pragmas by way of nested `forall`s, I
now invoke `addNoNestedForallsContextsErr` when renaming
`SPECIALISE instance` pragmas, much like when we rename normal
instance declarations. (This probably should have originally been
done as a part of the fix for #18240, but this task was somehow
overlooked.) As a result, this patch fixes #18455 as a side effect.
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