[project @ 2004-09-30 10:35:15 by simonpj]

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	Add Generalised Algebraic Data Types
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This rather big commit adds support for GADTs.  For example,

    data Term a where
 	  Lit :: Int -> Term Int
	  App :: Term (a->b) -> Term a -> Term b
	  If  :: Term Bool -> Term a -> Term a
	  ..etc..

    eval :: Term a -> a
    eval (Lit i) = i
    eval (App a b) = eval a (eval b)
    eval (If p q r) | eval p    = eval q
    		    | otherwise = eval r


Lots and lots of of related changes throughout the compiler to make
this fit nicely.

One important change, only loosely related to GADTs, is that skolem
constants in the typechecker are genuinely immutable and constant, so
we often get better error messages from the type checker.  See
TcType.TcTyVarDetails.

There's a new module types/Unify.lhs, which has purely-functional
unification and matching for Type. This is used both in the typechecker
(for type refinement of GADTs) and in Core Lint (also for type refinement).

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ghc/compiler/codeGen/CgStackery.lhs b/ghc/compiler/codeGen/CgStackery.lhs
index 2dddb3d34f..7cb310d521 100644
--- a/ghc/compiler/codeGen/CgStackery.lhs
+++ b/ghc/compiler/codeGen/CgStackery.lhs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 %
 % (c) The GRASP/AQUA Project, Glasgow University, 1992-1998
 %
-% $Id: CgStackery.lhs,v 1.26 2004/08/17 15:23:48 simonpj Exp $
+% $Id: CgStackery.lhs,v 1.27 2004/09/30 10:35:49 simonpj Exp $
 %
 \section[CgStackery]{Stack management functions}