Re: [GHC] #11450: Associated types at wrong type in instance

21 Jan 2016

      #11450: Associated types at wrong type in instance
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        Reporter:  simonpj           |                Owner:
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
        Priority:  high              |            Milestone:  8.0.1
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  7.10.3
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Comment (by rwbarton):

 Replying to [comment:11 RyanGlScott]:
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Then we'd have to do something like this:
{{{#!hs
instance Warning (Either a b) where
  type T (Either a b) = a
}}}
But this results in a warning on GHC 8.0!
{{{
    Defined but not used: type variable ‘b’
}}}
And if you changed `b` to `_`, it would no longer follow the rules
 described above.
GHC 8.0 does warn about that but it shouldn't. See #11451.

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