#9427: Do finer-grained dependency analysis to infer more general kinds on type/class declarations -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: goldfire | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.2 Keywords: | Operating System: Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Unknown/Multiple Difficulty: Unknown | Type of failure: Blocked By: | None/Unknown Related Tickets: | Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- In the resolution to #9200, as detailed [wiki:GhcKinds/KindInference#Apossiblevariation here], we identified an area for improvement. This improvement was not implemented in the fix for #9200. This ticket will track just this improvement. (In brief: we can do better dependency analysis on mutually recursive type/class declarations to allow more kinds to generalize earlier. This would lessen the burden on programmers to put in kind annotations. See the wiki page.) A solid but unfinished attempt is [https://github.com/goldfirere/ghc/tree /re-sort-non-cusk-decls here]. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9427 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler