Re: [Haskell-cafe] Redundant/overlapping patterns?

I think it’s saying it’s redundant because you already known what constructor it is; I’m guessing you’d get the same error from “case A of A -> …”. Jeff

On Jul 21, 2023, at 2:57 AM, Ben Franksen wrote:

So the error message should talk about "unreachable pattern" instead of "redundant pattern". That would cover all situations and would be less confusing in this special one.

Cheers Ben

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On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 09:24:20PM -0700, Todd Wilson wrote: Can someone please explain this:

ghci> case 1 of 2 -> 3

<interactive>:1:11: warning: [-Woverlapping-patterns] Pattern match is redundant In a case alternative: 2 -> ... *** Exception: <interactive>:1:1-16: Non-exhaustive patterns in case

The non-exhaustive patterns part is obvious, but what is redundant about this match? And how can there be overlapping patterns when there's only one? The error message changed betweek 8.8 and 8.10: GHCi, version 8.8.4: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help λ> data X = A | B λ> case A of B -> 42 *** Exception: <interactive>:2:1-18: Non-exhaustive patterns in case vs. GHCi, version 8.10.5: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help λ> data X = A | B λ> case A of B -> 42 <interactive>:2:11: warning: [-Woverlapping-patterns] Pattern match is redundant In a case alternative: B -> ... *** Exception: <interactive>:2:1-17: Non-exhaustive patterns in case The exception part is the same, and I hope non-controversial, the

Am 20.07.23 um 06:53 schrieb Viktor Dukhovni: pattern match is indeed non-exhaustive. What's new is the compile-time warning. It is documented at, e.g.: https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/using-warnings.html#ghc-f... where it is explained that a pattern is considered "overlapping" when it is unreachable, which is true in this case, though for reasons other than redundancy wrt. a prior pattern. And indeed we see the true issue/criterion is "reachability": λ> case A of B | GHC.Exts.considerAccessible -> 42 *** Exception: <interactive>:3:1-47: Non-exhaustive patterns in case The same is of course seen if the warning is disabled: λ> :set -Wno-overlapping-patterns λ> case A of B -> 42 *** Exception: <interactive>:6:1-17: Non-exhaustive patterns in case The pattern match is redundant given the specific scrutinee. Perhaps non-reachability in this case could be reported via a different warning, but we have what we have.

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