#9980: TcS monad is too heavy -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: simonpj | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.4 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Blocked By: Test Case: | Related Tickets: Blocking: | Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- The typehcecker's constraint-solving monad, `TcS`, is simply built on top of `TcM`, but it doesn't use most of `TcM`'s facilities. That was fine while `TcS` was only called from the typechecker, but now (as part of [wiki:PatternMatchCheck fixing pattern-match overlap checking]) we invoke it from the desugarer. It seems quite wrong to construct a vast, and unnecessary `TcM` context just to invoke `TcS`. Better: make `TcS` into its own monad, with its own `TcSLclEnv`, built on `IOEnv` like the others. Main objection: the plugins mechanism exposes `unsafeTcPluginTcM`, which would become unavailable. But it it used? -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9980 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler