PolyKind issue in GHC 7.6.1rc1: How to make a kind a functional dependency?

[Edward Kmett]

If I define the following

{-# LANGUAGE FunctionalDependencies, GADTs, KindSignatures,
MultiParamTypeClasses, PolyKinds, RankNTypes, TypeOperators,
DefaultSignatures, DataKinds, FlexibleInstances, UndecidableInstances #-}
module Indexed.Test where

class IMonad (m :: (k -> *) -> k -> *) where
  ireturn :: a x -> m a x

infixr 5 :-
data Thrist :: ((i,i) -> *) -> (i,i) -> * where
  Nil :: Thrist a '(i,i)
  (:-) :: a '(i,j) -> Thrist a '(j,k) -> Thrist a '(i,k)

instance IMonad Thrist where
  ireturn a = a :- Nil

Then 'ireturn' complains (correctly) that it can't match the k with the
kind (i,i). The reason it can't is because when you look at the resulting
signature for the MPTC it generates it looks like

class IMonad k m where
  ireturn :: a x -> m a x

However, there doesn't appear to be a way to say that the kind k should be
determined by m.

I tried doing:

class IMonad (m :: (k -> *) -> k -> *) | m -> k where
  ireturn :: a x -> m a x

Surprisingly (to me) this compiles and generates the correct constraints
for IMonad:

ghci> :set -XPolyKinds -XKindSignatures -XFunctionalDependencies
-XDataKinds -XGADTs
ghci> class IMonad (m :: (k -> *) -> k -> *) | m -> k where ireturn :: a x
-> m a x
ghci> :info IMonad
class IMonad k m | m -> k where
  ireturn :: a x -> m a x

But when I add

ghci> :{
Prelude| data Thrist :: ((i,i) -> *) -> (i,i) -> * where
Prelude|   Nil :: Thrist a '(i,i)
Prelude|   (:-) :: a '(i,j) -> Thrist a '(j,k) -> Thrist a '(i,k)
Prelude| :}

and attempt to introduce the instance, I crash:

ghci> instance IMonad Thrist where ireturn a = a :- Nil
ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
  (GHC version 7.6.0.20120810 for x86_64-apple-darwin):
lookupVarEnv_NF: Nothing

Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug

Moreover, attempting to compile them in separate modules leads to a
different issue.

Within the module, IMonad has a type that includes the kind k and the
constraint on it from m. But from the other module, :info shows no such
constraint, and the above code again fails to typecheck, but upon trying to
recompile, when GHC goes to load the IMonad instance from the core file, it
panicks again differently about references to a variable not present in the
core.

Is there any way to make such a constraint that determines a kind from a
type parameter in GHC 7.6 at this time?

I tried the Kind hack used in GHC.TypeLits, but it doesn't seem to be
applicable to this situation.

-Edward
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