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Co-authored by: Sam Derbyshire
Previously, GHC had three flavours of constraint:
Wanted, Given, and Derived. This removes Derived constraints.
Though serving a number of purposes, the most important role
of Derived constraints was to enable better error messages.
This job has been taken over by the new RewriterSets, as explained
in Note [Wanteds rewrite wanteds] in GHC.Tc.Types.Constraint.
Other knock-on effects:
- Various new Notes as I learned about under-described bits of GHC
- A reshuffling around the AST for implicit-parameter bindings,
with better integration with TTG.
- Various improvements around fundeps. These were caused by the
fact that, previously, fundep constraints were all Derived,
and Derived constraints would get dropped. Thus, an unsolved
Derived didn't stop compilation. Without Derived, this is no
longer possible, and so we have to be considerably more careful
around fundeps.
- A nice little refactoring in GHC.Tc.Errors to center the work
on a new datatype called ErrorItem. Constraints are converted
into ErrorItems at the start of processing, and this allows for
a little preprocessing before the main classification.
- This commit also cleans up the behavior in generalisation around
functional dependencies. Now, if a variable is determined by
functional dependencies, it will not be quantified. This change
is user facing, but it should trim down GHC's strange behavior
around fundeps.
- Previously, reportWanteds did quite a bit of work, even on an empty
WantedConstraints. This commit adds a fast path.
- Now, GHC will unconditionally re-simplify constraints during
quantification. See Note [Unconditionally resimplify constraints when
quantifying], in GHC.Tc.Solver.
Close #18398.
Close #18406.
Solve the fundep-related non-confluence in #18851.
Close #19131.
Close #19137.
Close #20922.
Close #20668.
Close #19665.
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