Currently, if you write
data V a deriving Functor
GHC generates
fmap _ _ = error "Void fmap"
This seems quite unfortunate, because it loses potentially useful error information:
fmap (+ 3) (error "Too many snozzcumbers!")
throws "Void fmap", rather than the much more precise "Too many snozzcumbers!" I've opened Trac #13117 to fix this, but I figured I should double check that no one is opposed.
David Feuer