#12742: Instantiation of invisible type family arguments is too eager -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: goldfire | Owner: goldfire Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.0.1 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: GHC rejects Unknown/Multiple | valid program Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- This module looks, to me, like it should be accepted: {{{ {-# LANGUAGE TypeInType, RankNTypes, TypeFamilies #-} module Bug where import Data.Kind type family F :: forall k2. (k1, k2) data T :: (forall k2. (Bool, k2)) -> Type type S = T F }}} But it's not. The problem is that `TcHsType.handle_tyfams` eagerly instantiates ''all'' invisible arguments to a type family at every occurrence. Instead, it should instantiate only those that are counted in the TF's arity -- that is, those "before the colon". Will fix. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12742 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler