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author | Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com> | 2020-12-02 10:27:47 +0000 |
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committer | Marge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org> | 2020-12-08 15:31:41 -0500 |
commit | 62ed6957463a9c0f711ea698d7ed4371e00fb122 (patch) | |
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Fix kind inference for data types. Again.
This patch fixes several aspects of kind inference for data type
declarations, especially data /instance/ declarations
Specifically
1. In kcConDecls/kcConDecl make it clear that the tc_res_kind argument
is only used in the H98 case; and in that case there is no result
kind signature; and hence no need for the disgusting splitPiTys in
kcConDecls (now thankfully gone).
The GADT case is a bit different to before, and much nicer.
This is what fixes #18891.
See Note [kcConDecls: kind-checking data type decls]
2. Do not look at the constructor decls of a data/newtype instance
in tcDataFamInstanceHeader. See GHC.Tc.TyCl.Instance
Note [Kind inference for data family instances]. This was a
new realisation that arose when doing (1)
This causes a few knock-on effects in the tests suite, because
we require more information than before in the instance /header/.
New user-manual material about this in "Kind inference in data type
declarations" and "Kind inference for data/newtype instance
declarations".
3. Minor improvement in kcTyClDecl, combining GADT and H98 cases
4. Fix #14111 and #8707 by allowing the header of a data instance
to affect kind inferece for the the data constructor signatures;
as described at length in Note [GADT return types] in GHC.Tc.TyCl
This led to a modest refactoring of the arguments (and argument
order) of tcConDecl/tcConDecls.
5. Fix #19000 by inverting the sense of the test in new_locs
in GHC.Tc.Solver.Canonical.canDecomposableTyConAppOK.
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