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authorSimon Peyton Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com>2020-12-02 10:27:47 +0000
committerMarge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org>2020-12-08 15:31:41 -0500
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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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