[Haskell-cafe] Equality constraints in type families
Simon Peyton-Jones
simonpj at microsoft.com
Wed Mar 26 07:44:33 EDT 2008
| > Why not quite?
|
| Maybe I was thinking too much in terms of GHC's implementation, but
| due to the lazy expansion type synonyms, the expansion is interleaved
| with all the rest of type checking. But I think I now know what you
| meant: the outcome should be *as if* type synonym expansion was done
| as a pre-pass.
Well, validity checking is done when (and only when) converting an HsType to a Type. (The former being a programmer written type.) That's just what we want. It's done by checkValidType, which is not at all interleaved. Once that check is done, the lazy expansion can, I think, be left to itself; no further checking is required.
Simon
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