Hmm, strange. I have a project that uses data families with dozens of
constructors per "clause"/instantiation of the type function. I use GADT
syntax to define them though as they also refine one of the parameter type
variables. Never had any issues with it, although I haven't tried building
that project on GHC 7 yet (as some of its dependencies didn't work last time
I tried), so maybe it's a new issue?
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Michael Snoyman
Hey all,
While trying to get a commit pushed for Yesod[1], Alexander Dunlap pointed out one of his programs didn't work with the new code. After some investigation, I was able to reproduce the bug with the following code snippet:
{-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-} data family Foo a data Bar = Bar data instance Foo Bar = Bar1 | Bar2 | Bar3 | Bar4 | Bar5 | Bar6 | Bar7 | Bar8 | Bar9 deriving Eq
This produces:
Couldn't match expected type `Main.R:FooBar' against inferred type `Foo Bar' NB: `Foo' is a type function In the first argument of `Main.$con2tag_R:FooBar', namely `a' In the expression: (Main.$con2tag_R:FooBar a) In the expression: case (Main.$con2tag_R:FooBar a) of { a# -> case (Main.$con2tag_R:FooBar b) of { b# -> (a# GHC.Prim.==# b#) } }
The especially strange thing about this bug is that it only occurs when there are more than 8 constructors; if I remove Bar9, everything seems to work. Does anyone have experience with this occuring?
Michael
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