Defining a wired-in type of a different kind

[Matthew Pickering]

I would suggest that it's easier to define a normal type constructor
and data cons and then promote them.

This is how the runtime rep polymorphism stuff works for instance so
you can look there for inspiration (it's where I look to work out how
to implement multiplicity polymorphism).

Matt

On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 12:06 PM Jan van Brügge <jan at vanbruegge.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> when trying to get familiar with the GHC code base for my Bachelor's
> thesis. I followed the GHC Wiki, especially the case study about the
> bool type.
> Now I wanted to add a new kind and a new type inhabiting this kind
> (without having to expose a data constructor, so without datatype
> promotion).
>
> So in TysWiredIn.hs I added the new TyCons and added them to the list of
> wired-in types:
>
> -- data Row a b
> rowKindCon :: TyCon
> rowKindCon = pcTyCon rowKindConName Nothing [alphaTyVar, betaTyVar] []
>
> rowKind :: Kind
> rowKind = mkTyConTy rowKindCon
>
> -- data RNil :: Row a b
> rnilTyCon :: TyCon
> rnilTyCon = mkAlgTyCon rnilTyConName [] rowKind [] Nothing []
>     (mkDataTyConRhs [])
>     (VanillaAlgTyCon (mkPrelTyConRepName rnilTyConName))
>     False
>
> rnilTy :: Type
> rnilTy = mkTyConTy rnilTyCon
>
>
> I also added two new empty data decls to ghc-prim, but if I inspect the
> kind of RNil it is not Row, but Type. So I think I am either
> understanding res_kind wrong or I have to do something completely different.
> I am also not sure how to verify that the code in TysWiredIn.hs is
> working at all, from all what I can tell it could just be the
> declarations in ghc-prim that result in what I see in ghci.
>
> Thank you and sorry for my beginner question
> Jan
>
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