Haskell 2010 defines virtually the same language as Haskell 98. The differences are too trivial to worry about. One spot you may wish to follow GHC (and I think Hugs, at least) rather than the Report: https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/bugs.html#typechecking-of... On Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 3:37 PM Benjamin Redelings < benjamin.redelings@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
1. I'm looking for resources that describe how to implement kind Haskell 98 checking. Does anyone have any suggestions?
* I've looked at the PolyKinds paper, but it doesn't cover type classes.
* I've looked at the source code to GHC, but it is hard to follow for a variety of reasons. It isn't laid out like an algorithm description, and the complexity to handle options like PolyKinds and DataKinds makes the code harder to follow.
2. One question that came up is how to handle type variables that are present in class methods, but are not type class parameters. If there are multiple types/classes in a single recursive group, the kind of such type variables might not be fully resolved until a later type-or-class is processed. Is there a recommended approach?
I can see two ways to proceed:
i) First determine the kinds of all the data types, classes, and type synonyms. Then perform a second pass over each type or class to determine the kinds of type variables (in class methods) that are not type class parameters.
ii) Alternatively, record the kind of each type variable as it is encountered -- even though such kinds may contain unification kind variables. After visiting all types-or-classes in the recursive group, replace any kind variables with their definition, or with a * if there is no definition.
I've currently implement approach i), which requires doing kind inference on class methods twice. Is this the recommended approach?
3. Also, is Haskell 98 kind checking the same as Haskell 2010 kind checking?
-BenRI
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