[Git][ghc/ghc][wip/T18126] 2 commits: Implement Quick Look impredicativity

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Simon Peyton Jones pushed to branch wip/T18126 at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC


Commits:
7b0a925d by Simon Peyton Jones at 2020-07-16T15:45:07+01:00
Implement Quick Look impredicativity

This patch implements Quick Look impredicativity, sticking very
closely to the design in
    A quick look at impredicativity, Serrano et al, ICFP 2020

The main change is that a big chunk of GHC.Tc.Gen.Expr has been
extracted to a new module
    GHC.Tc.Gen.App
which deals with typechecking n-ary applications.  It contains
a good deal of documentation.

Two other loosely-related change is in this patch:

* HsRecFld (which the renamer introduces for record field selectors),
  is now preserved by the typechecker, rather than being rewritten
  back to HsVar.  This is more uniform, and turned out to be more
  convenient in the new scheme of things.

* The GHCi debugger uses a non-standard unification that allows the
  unification variables to unify with polytypes.  We used to hack
  this by using ImpredicativeTypes, but that doesn't work anymore
  so I introduces RuntimeUnkTv.  See Note [RuntimeUnkTv] in
  GHC.Runtime.Heap.Inspect

WARNING: this patch won't validate on its own.  It was too
hard to fully disentangle it from the following patch, on
type errors and kind generalisation.

	modified:   compiler/GHC/Runtime/Heap/Inspect.hs

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ca6505d4 by Simon Peyton Jones at 2020-07-16T15:45:07+01:00
Improve kind generalisation, error messages

This patch does two things:

* It refactors GHC.Tc.Errors a bit.  In debugging Quick Look I was
  forced to look in detail at error messages, and ended up doing a bit
  of refactoring, esp in mkTyVarEqErr'.  It's still quite a mess, but
  a bit better, I think.

* It makes a significant improvement to the kind checking of type and
  class declarations. Specifically, we now ensure that if kind
  checking fails with an unsolved constraint, all the skolems are in
  scope.  That wasn't the case before, which led to some obscure error
  messages; and occasional failures with "no skolem info" (eg #16245).

Both of these, and the main Quick Look patch itself, affect a /lot/ of
error messages, as you can see from the number of files changed.  I've
checked them all; I think they are as good or better than before.

Smaller things

* I documented the various instances of VarBndr better.
  See Note [The VarBndr tyep and its uses] in GHC.Types.Var

* Renamed GHC.Tc.Solver.simpl_top to simplifyTopWanteds

* A bit of refactoring in bindExplicitTKTele, to avoid the
  footwork with Either.  Simpler now.

* Move promoteTyVar from GHC.Tc.Solver to GHC.Tc.Utils.TcMType

Fixes #16245 (comment 211369), memorialised as
  typeecheck/polykinds/T16245a

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16 changed files:

- compiler/GHC/Core/TyCon.hs
- compiler/GHC/Hs/Expr.hs
- compiler/GHC/Hs/Pat.hs
- compiler/GHC/Hs/Type.hs
- compiler/GHC/HsToCore/Coverage.hs
- compiler/GHC/HsToCore/Expr.hs
- compiler/GHC/Parser/PostProcess.hs
- compiler/GHC/Rename/Pat.hs
- compiler/GHC/Runtime/Eval.hs
- compiler/GHC/Runtime/Heap/Inspect.hs
- compiler/GHC/Tc/Deriv/Generate.hs
- compiler/GHC/Tc/Errors.hs
- compiler/GHC/Tc/Errors/Hole.hs
- + compiler/GHC/Tc/Gen/App.hs
- compiler/GHC/Tc/Gen/Arrow.hs
- compiler/GHC/Tc/Gen/Default.hs


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