<div dir="ltr"><div><div>And once the splitLHsForAllTy is sorted, this<br><br>tc_inst_head :: HsType Name -> TcM TcType<br>tc_inst_head (HsForAllTy _ _ hs_tvs hs_ctxt hs_ty)<br> = tcHsTyVarBndrs hs_tvs $ \ tvs -><br> do { ctxt <- tcHsContext hs_ctxt<br> ; ty <- tc_lhs_type hs_ty ekConstraint -- Body for forall has kind Constraint<br> ; return (mkSigmaTy tvs ctxt ty) }<br><br></div>results in<br><br>libraries/base/Data/Monoid.hs:217:23:<br> Illegal constraint: Alternative f => Monoid (Alt f a)<br> In the instance declaration for ‘Alternative f => Monoid (Alt f a)’<br><br></div>Alan<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Alan & Kim Zimmerman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.zimm@gmail.com" target="_blank">alan.zimm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>It looks like<br><br>splitLHsForAllTy<br> :: LHsType name<br> -> (LHsTyVarBndrs name, HsContext name, LHsType name)<br>splitLHsForAllTy poly_ty<br> = case unLoc poly_ty of<br> HsParTy ty -> splitLHsForAllTy ty<br> HsForAllTy _ _ tvs cxt ty -> (tvs, unLoc cxt, ty)<br> _ -> (emptyHsQTvs, [], poly_ty)<br> -- The type vars should have been computed by now, even if they were implicit<br><br></div>needs a recursive call for the HsForAllTy case, it now generates<br><br>libraries/base/Data/Monoid.hs:217:10:<br> Malformed instance: forall f a. Alternative f => Monoid (Alt f a)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Alan<br></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Simon Peyton Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" target="_blank">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Look at how instance declarations are parsed. If you look at Parser.y you’ll see that for<u></u><u></u></span></p><span>
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<p><span>instance (Eq a, Eq b) => Eq (a,b)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">we get (in effect)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span>mkImplicitHsForAllTy (mkQualifiedHsForAllTy (Eq a, Eq b) (Eq (a,b))<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The outer mkImplicit.. is to ensure that there is always, in the end, a HsForAllTy around the whole thing, even around
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">say.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">But we don’t actually want two nested HsForAllTys. mk_forall_ty collapsed the two.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">But you don’t want that either. So I think you should make mkImplictHsForAllTy do the test instead. Its goal is to wrap a HsForallTy if there isn’t one already.
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<p><span>mkImplicitHsForAllTy (HsForAllTy exp tvs cxt ty)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span> = HsForAllTy exp’ tvs cxt ty<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span> where<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span>mkImplicitHsForAllTy ty = mkHsForAllTy Implicit [] (L loc _) ty<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">should do the job.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Incidentally, mkImplicitHsForAllTy should not take a ctxt argument. If you have a non-empty context, use mkQualifiedHsForAllTy. That means that in Convert you’ll
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> mkHsForAllTy Implicit ctxt ty’<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">instead of mkImplicitHsForAllTy<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Simon<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 10 April 2015 08:02<br>
<b>To:</b> Simon Peyton Jones<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org" target="_blank">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Collapsing HsForAllTy, again<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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If I replace it with<br>
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mkHsForAllTy :: HsExplicitFlag -> [LHsTyVarBndr RdrName] -> LHsContext RdrName -> LHsType RdrName -> HsType RdrName<br>
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-- mkHsForAllTy exp tvs (L _ []) ty = mk_forall_ty exp tvs ty<br>
mkHsForAllTy exp tvs (L _ []) ty = HsForAllTy exp Nothing (mkHsQTvs tvs) (L noSrcSpan []) ty<br>
mkHsForAllTy exp tvs ctxt ty = HsForAllTy exp extra (mkHsQTvs tvs) cleanCtxt ty<br>
where -- Separate the extra-constraints wildcard when present<br>
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| (L l HsWildcardTy) <- ignoreParens (last (unLoc ctxt)) = (init `fmap` ctxt, Just l)<br>
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ignoreParens (L _ (HsParTy ty)) = ty -- TODO:AZ We lose the annotation here<br>
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I get the following errors in the stage 2 compile (only first 3 shown here)<br>
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Malformed instance: (Eq a, Eq b) => Eq (a, b)<br>
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libraries/ghc-prim/GHC/Classes.hs:53:19:<br>
Malformed instance: (Eq a, Eq b, Eq c) => Eq (a, b, c)<br>
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libraries/ghc-prim/GHC/Classes.hs:54:19:<br>
Malformed instance: (Eq a, Eq b, Eq c, Eq d) => Eq (a, b, c, d)<br>
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Simon Peyton Jones <<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" target="_blank">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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Simon</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org" target="_blank">ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Alan & Kim Zimmerman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 09 April 2015 22:15<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org" target="_blank">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Collapsing HsForAllTy, again</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<a href="https://phabricator.haskell.org/D833" target="_blank">https://phabricator.haskell.org/D833</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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