Unused type variables with non-linear patterns

[Simon Peyton Jones]

I agree too.

Is there a ticket?   Does it emit a warning right now?

Simon

From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Richard Eisenberg
Sent: 11 December 2015 16:02
To: Michael Sloan <mgsloan at gmail.com>
Cc: ghc-devs at haskell.org
Subject: Re: Unused type variables with non-linear patterns

I agree with Michael. This should not emit a warning.

While you're in this area, make sure that

> type instance F _ _ = Int

indeed matches `F Char Bool`. It's easy to imagine both underscores being treated as the same variable, which is not what the user intends.

Thanks,
Richard

On Dec 10, 2015, at 4:32 PM, Michael Sloan <mgsloan at gmail.com<mailto:mgsloan at gmail.com>> wrote:


I definitely think this should be considered a usage.  Ideally, you should always be able to resolve warnings, but there'd be no straightforward way to do so if LHS-only usages cause warnings.  Also, It's quite useful to use type variables only on the LHS.  Usage example: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.8.1.0/docs/src/Data.Type.Equality.html#EqStar<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fhackage.haskell.org%2fpackage%2fbase-4.8.1.0%2fdocs%2fsrc%2fData.Type.Equality.html%23EqStar&data=01%7c01%7csimonpj%40064d.mgd.microsoft.com%7c65bff682e66a434f1f1708d302447d3f%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=gkgghrbPZ7shUtk4z2WesVVJaQD8wlKhlbXWmFHpjEs%3d>

-Michael

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 6:48 AM, Jan Stolarek <jan.stolarek at p.lodz.pl<mailto:jan.stolarek at p.lodz.pl>> wrote:
An intersting thing came up when implementing warnings for unused type variables in type family
patterns (#10982 / D1576):

type family X a b where
  X a a = Int

Should we emit a warning that `a` is unused? It does not appear in the RHS but it is actually used
because of non-linear pattern. We can fix this by prefixing both appearances of `a` with an
underscore - this silences the warning and maintains semantics. Nevertheless, if a variable is
unused it should be perfectly valid to replace it with an underscore - that is not the case in
this example. Thoughts?

Janek

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