Impredicative types error
John Meacham
john at repetae.net
Tue Jan 31 21:57:39 CET 2012
Hi, I am running into an issue where some code that compiled and
worked under 6.12 is failing under 7.0, the offending code is
class DeNameable a where
deName :: Module -> a -> a
getDeName :: Tc (DeNameable n => n -> n)
getDeName = do
mn <- asks (tcInfoModName . tcInfo)
return (\n -> deName mn n)
Tc is a plain typechecking monad and this returns a generic denaming
function that can be used to turn haskell names back into human
readable form before printing errors in jhc.
I have the ImpredicativeTypes LANGUAGE feature turned on.
the error I get under 7.0 is
src/FrontEnd/Tc/Monad.hs:131:29:
Couldn't match expected type `n -> n'
with actual type `DeNameable n'
In the second argument of `deName', namely `n'
In the expression: deName mn n
In the first argument of `return', namely `(\ n -> deName mn n)'
John
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