We need to add role annotations for 7.8

[Austin Seipp]

We were talking about this just this second in IRC. We also need to
double-check vector as well.

(After that we can also fix
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8767, which I mentioned on IRC
earlier.)

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Edward Kmett <ekmett at gmail.com> wrote:
> That looks correct to me. Analogously for HashMap in unordered-containers of
> course.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> If you send a pull request for containers I'll merge it and make a
>> release. It needs to be backwards compatible with the last 3 major GHC
>> releases. I think we need to bump the minor version number so people can
>> reliable write dependency bounds to depend on the role being there (as that
>> might be the difference between code compiling or not).
>>
>> Here's a guess which params should be representational:
>>
>> Map k v -- k: nominal, v: represententional
>> Set a -- k: nominal
>> IntMap v -- v: represententional
>> Sequence a -- a: represententional
>> Tree a -- a: represententional
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Richard Eisenberg <eir at cis.upenn.edu>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi libraries, Johan, Edward,
>>>
>>> tl;dr: We really should add role annotations to the libraries that ship
>>> with GHC 7.8.
>>>
>>> In November, I sent this out:
>>> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2013-November/021707.html
>>> It got several good responses. Some time later, Joachim and I noticed
>>> that no action was taken, so we made a bug report, #8718, with a milestone
>>> of 7.8.1. I believe we both assumed that would take care of it. However,
>>> Simon PJ and I were surprised earlier this week to discover that Map and Set
>>> still do not have role annotations. Perhaps the GHC Trac isn't the right
>>> place for libraries issues, but posting here didn't quite work, so that
>>> seemed like the logical next step.
>>>
>>> In any case, now that we have the ability to prevent abuses of datatypes
>>> like Map and Set through erroneous use of GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving (and
>>> the new `coerce`), we should take advantage of this fact for 7.8. See my
>>> earlier email for a full explanation.
>>>
>>> Possibly folks' unfamiliarity with roles are in part to blame for not
>>> adding these role annotations. I am happy to help sort out what goes where.
>>> But, I need to work with someone with an intimate familiarity with the
>>> libraries themselves to help determine what the correct annotations are. For
>>> example, Map's first parameter should be nominal (its Ord instance is very
>>> relevant) but its second should be representational (there are no particular
>>> invariants related to the values of a map). Map is straightforward in this
>>> respect; other types probably aren't. Furthermore, I don't have anywhere
>>> near a complete list of what even needs attention. (It should be any type
>>> abstractly exported from a library.)
>>>
>>> Can someone help? I've included Johan as the most recent uploader of
>>> `containers` and Edward as the head of the core libraries committee.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Richard
>>
>>
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Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
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