#11112: Error message for accidentally using -> instead of => -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: JulesBean | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: | typecheck/should_fail/tcfail057 Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Changes (by thomie): * testcase: => typecheck/should_fail/tcfail057 Comment: In HEAD, the `GHC.Prim.` bit is gone: {{{ Expected a type, but ‘Ord s’ has kind ‘Constraint’ In the type signature for ‘Test.sort’: Test.sort :: Ord s -> [s] -> [s] }}} @JulesBean: what do you think about this error message? The last real change to these error messages was made in commit 8bc6c4a613b5d16118469248cfb8025a5175a174: {{{ Author: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com> Date: Fri Oct 19 02:20:12 2012 +0100 Improvements to kind error messages, mainly Also some expected/actual messages are now the right way round }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11112#comment:1> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler