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authorRyan Scott <ryan.gl.scott@gmail.com>2020-03-24 18:44:08 -0400
committerRyan Scott <ryan.gl.scott@gmail.com>2020-03-24 18:44:28 -0400
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parent2643ba465cd2a133b6f495f34fc59cd1a6d23525 (diff)
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Run checkNewDataCon before constraint-solving newtype constructorswip/T17955
Within `checkValidDataCon`, we used to run `checkValidType` on the argument types of a newtype constructor before running `checkNewDataCon`, which ensures that the user does not attempt non-sensical things such as newtypes with multiple arguments or constraints. This works out in most situations, but this falls over on a corner case revealed in #17955: ```hs newtype T = Coercible () T => T () ``` `checkValidType`, among other things, peforms an ambiguity check on the context of a data constructor, and that it turn invokes the constraint solver. It turns out that there is a special case in the constraint solver for representational equalities (read: `Coercible` constraints) that causes newtypes to be unwrapped (see `Note [Unwrap newtypes first]` in `TcCanonical`). This special case does not know how to cope with an ill formed newtype like `T`, so it ends up panicking. The solution is surprisingly simple: just invoke `checkNewDataCon` before `checkValidType` to ensure that the illicit newtype constructor context is detected before the constraint solver can run amok with it. Fixes #17955.
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