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by sheaf at 2026-08-13T10:15:22-04:00
Allow rewriting in RuntimeReps for newtype ConPats
This commit implements PHASE 2 of the FixedRuntimeRep plan described in
Note [The Concrete mechanism] in GHC.Tc.Utils.Concrete for newtype
constructor patterns.
In short, GHC now accepts programs of the form
f (MkN x) = ...
in which the argument 'x' of the newtype constructor pattern 'MkN x'
has a representation that is not syntactically concrete, e.g. it can be
'Id IntRep' reducing to 'IntRep'. See T20363{,b,c} for examples.
There are two main parts to the implementation:
1. Typechecking, in GHC.Tc.Gen.Pat.tcDataConPat.
See Note [Typechecking newtype constructor patterns] in GHC.Tc.Gen.Pat.
2. Desugaring. We restructure the code for desugaring pattern matches
by allowing the scrutinised match variable to be casted. This allows
us to accumulate coercions and avoids creating binders at intermediate
types tha don't have a fixed RuntimeRep.
See the revamped Note [Match Ids] in GHC.HsToCore.Monad.
Fixes #20363
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Metric Increase:
InstanceMatching
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