Error message degradation for (<= :: Nat -> Nat -> Constraint) in GHC 9.2+

Carter Schonwald carter.schonwald at gmail.com
Thu Jun 17 15:09:32 UTC 2021


Agreed and better articulated than what I likely would have said

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 8:38 AM Sam Derbyshire <sam.derbyshire at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Christiaan,
>
> As far as I'm concerned that's a worrying regression, and I think you
> should file a ticket on the GHC tracker about it.
> I believe GHC already contains logic to avoid expanding type synonyms in
> error messages in certain situations, but it apparently doesn't apply here.
> Hopefully someone more knowledgeable about this can chime in.
>
> Sam
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