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This brings the `IrredPred` case in sync with the treatment of `ClassPred`s as
described in `Note [Valid 'deriving' predicate]` in `GHC.Tc.Validity`. Namely,
we should reject `IrredPred`s that are inferred from `deriving` clauses whose
arguments contain other type constructors, as described in `(VD2) Reject exotic
constraints` of that Note. This has the nice property that `deriving` clauses
whose inferred instance context mention `TypeError` will now emit the type
error in the resulting error message, which better matches existing intuitions
about how `TypeError` should work.
While I was in town, I noticed that much of `Note [Valid 'deriving' predicate]`
was duplicated in a separate `Note [Exotic derived instance contexts]` in
`GHC.Tc.Deriv.Infer`. I decided to fold the latter Note into the former so that
there is a single authority on describing the conditions under which an
inferred `deriving` constraint can be considered valid.
This changes the behavior of `deriving` in a way that existing code might
break, so I have made a mention of this in the GHC User's Guide. It seems very,
very unlikely that much code is relying on this strange behavior, however, and
even if there is, there is a clear, backwards-compatible migration path using
`StandaloneDeriving`.
Fixes #22696.
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