[Haskell-cafe] warn-incomplete-patterns and GADTs

27 Aug 2010

      Hi,

is warn-incomplete-patterns (in GHC 6.10.3) less clever than it could be?

{-# OPTIONS_GHC -fglasgow-exts #-}
{-# OPTIONS_GHC -fwarn-incomplete-patterns  #-}
module Vec where

data Z
data S a

data Vec n a where
   VNil :: Vec Z a
   VCons :: a -> Vec m a -> Vec (S m) a

instance Eq a => Eq (Vec n a) where
   VNil == VNil = True
   VCons x vx == VCons y vy = x==y && vx == vy

give the warning:
    Warning: Pattern match(es) are non-exhaustive
             In the definition of `==':
                 Patterns not matched:
                     VNil (VCons _ _)
                     (VCons _ _) VNil

but of course VNil and VCons can never have the same type.

Tom

[Haskell-cafe] warn-incomplete-patterns and GADTs

Tom Nielsen