#11670: Generalisation behaviour of partial type signatures
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Reporter: Iceland_jack | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.3
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Comment (by Simon Peyton Jones ):
In [changeset:"15b9bf4ba4ab47e6809bf2b3b36ec16e502aea72/ghc"
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#!CommitTicketReference repository="ghc"
revision="15b9bf4ba4ab47e6809bf2b3b36ec16e502aea72"
Improve typechecking of let-bindings
This major commit was initially triggered by #11339, but it spiraled
into a major review of the way in which type signatures for bindings
are handled, especially partial type signatures. On the way I fixed a
number of other bugs, namely
#12069
#12033
#11700
#11339
#11670
The main change is that I completely reorganised the way in which type
signatures in bindings are handled. The new story is in TcSigs
Note [Overview of type signatures]. Some specific:
* Changes in the data types for signatures in TcRnTypes:
TcIdSigInfo and new TcIdSigInst
* New module TcSigs deals with typechecking type signatures
and pragmas. It contains code mostly moved from TcBinds,
which is already too big
* HsTypes: I swapped the nesting of HsWildCardBndrs
and HsImplicitBndsrs, so that the wildcards are on the
oustide not the insidde in a LHsSigWcType. This is just
a matter of convenient, nothing deep.
There are a host of other changes as knock-on effects, and
it all took FAR longer than I anticipated :-). But it is
a significant improvement, I think.
Lots of error messages changed slightly, some just variants but
some modest improvements.
New tests
* typecheck/should_compile
* SigTyVars: a scoped-tyvar test
* ExPat, ExPatFail: existential pattern bindings
* T12069
* T11700
* T11339
* partial-sigs/should_compile
* T12033
* T11339a
* T11670
One thing to check:
* Small change to output from ghc-api/landmines.
Need to check with Alan Zimmerman
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