[project @ 2001-06-25 08:09:57 by simonpj]

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	Squash newtypes
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This commit squashes newtypes and their coerces, from the typechecker
onwards.  The original idea was that the coerces would not get in the
way of optimising transformations, but despite much effort they continue
to do so.   There's no very good reason to retain newtype information
beyond the typechecker, so now we don't.

Main points:

* The post-typechecker suite of Type-manipulating functions is in
types/Type.lhs, as before.   But now there's a new suite in types/TcType.lhs.
The difference is that in the former, newtype are transparent, while in
the latter they are opaque.  The typechecker should only import TcType,
not Type.

* The operations in TcType are all non-monadic, and most of them start with
"tc" (e.g. tcSplitTyConApp).  All the monadic operations (used exclusively
by the typechecker) are in a new module, typecheck/TcMType.lhs

* I've grouped newtypes with predicate types, thus:
	data Type = TyVarTy Tyvar | ....
		  | SourceTy SourceType

	data SourceType = NType TyCon [Type]
			| ClassP Class [Type]
			| IParam Type

[SourceType was called PredType.]  This is a little wierd in some ways,
because NTypes can't occur in qualified types.   However, the idea is that
a SourceType is a type that is opaque to the type checker, but transparent
to the rest of the compiler, and newtypes fit that as do implicit parameters
and dictionaries.

* Recursive newtypes still retain their coreces, exactly as before. If
they were transparent we'd get a recursive type, and that would make
various bits of the compiler diverge (e.g. things which do type comparison).

* I've removed types/Unify.lhs (non-monadic type unifier and matcher),
merging it into TcType.

Ditto typecheck/TcUnify.lhs (monadic unifier), merging it into TcMType.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/ghc/compiler/deSugar/Match.lhs b/ghc/compiler/deSugar/Match.lhs
index 92dae2227f..5aa3fdceef 100644
--- a/ghc/compiler/deSugar/Match.lhs
+++ b/ghc/compiler/deSugar/Match.lhs
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import DataCon		( dataConFieldLabels, dataConInstOrigArgTys )
 import MatchCon		( matchConFamily )
 import MatchLit		( matchLiterals )
 import PrelInfo		( pAT_ERROR_ID )
-import Type		( splitAlgTyConApp, mkTyVarTys, Type )
+import TcType		( mkTyVarTys, Type, tcSplitTyConApp, tcEqType )
 import TysWiredIn	( nilDataCon, consDataCon, mkTupleTy, mkListTy, tupleCon )
 import BasicTypes	( Boxity(..) )
 import UniqSet
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ tidy1 v (RecPat data_con pat_ty ex_tvs dicts rpats) match_result
     pats 	     = map mk_pat tagged_arg_tys
 
 	-- Boring stuff to find the arg-tys of the constructor
-    (_, inst_tys, _) = splitAlgTyConApp pat_ty
+    (_, inst_tys)    = tcSplitTyConApp pat_ty
     con_arg_tys'     = dataConInstOrigArgTys data_con (inst_tys ++ mkTyVarTys ex_tvs)
     tagged_arg_tys   = con_arg_tys' `zip` (dataConFieldLabels data_con)
 
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ flattenMatches kind matches
     let
 	result_ty = head result_tys
     in
-    ASSERT( all (== result_ty) result_tys )
+    ASSERT( all (tcEqType result_ty) result_tys )
     returnDs (result_ty, eqn_infos)
   where
     flatten_match (Match _ pats _ grhss, n)