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This patch introduces a new kind of metavariable, by adding the
constructor `ConcreteTv` to `MetaInfo`. A metavariable with
`ConcreteTv` `MetaInfo`, henceforth a concrete metavariable, can only
be unified with a type that is concrete (that is, a type that answers
`True` to `GHC.Core.Type.isConcrete`).
This solves the problem of dangling metavariables in `Concrete#`
constraints: instead of emitting `Concrete# ty`, which contains a
secret existential metavariable, we simply emit a primitive equality
constraint `ty ~# concrete_tv` where `concrete_tv` is a fresh concrete
metavariable.
This means we can avoid all the complexity of canonicalising
`Concrete#` constraints, as we can just re-use the existing machinery
for `~#`.
To finish things up, this patch then removes the `Concrete#` special
predicate, and instead introduces the special predicate `IsRefl#`
which enforces that a coercion is reflexive.
Such a constraint is needed because the canonicaliser is quite happy
to rewrite an equality constraint such as `ty ~# concrete_tv`, but
such a rewriting is not handled by the rest of the compiler currently,
as we need to make use of the resulting coercion, as outlined in the
FixedRuntimeRep plan.
The big upside of this approach (on top of simplifying the code)
is that we can now selectively implement PHASE 2 of FixedRuntimeRep,
by changing individual calls of `hasFixedRuntimeRep_MustBeRefl` to
`hasFixedRuntimeRep` and making use of the obtained coercion.
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PHASE 1: we never rewrite Concrete# evidence.
This patch migrates all the representation polymorphism checks to
the typechecker, using a new constraint form
Concrete# :: forall k. k -> TupleRep '[]
Whenever a type `ty` must be representation-polymorphic
(e.g. it is the type of an argument to a function), we emit a new
`Concrete# ty` Wanted constraint. If this constraint goes
unsolved, we report a representation-polymorphism error to the user.
The 'FRROrigin' datatype keeps track of the context of the
representation-polymorphism check, for more informative error messages.
This paves the way for further improvements, such as
allowing type families in RuntimeReps and improving the soundness
of typed Template Haskell. This is left as future work (PHASE 2).
fixes #17907 #20277 #20330 #20423 #20426
updates haddock submodule
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Metric Decrease:
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