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  2. Dec 11, 2015
    • Austin Seipp's avatar
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    • Richard Eisenberg's avatar
      Add kind equalities to GHC. · 67465497
      Richard Eisenberg authored
      This implements the ideas originally put forward in
      "System FC with Explicit Kind Equality" (ICFP'13).
      
      There are several noteworthy changes with this patch:
       * We now have casts in types. These change the kind
         of a type. See new constructor `CastTy`.
      
       * All types and all constructors can be promoted.
         This includes GADT constructors. GADT pattern matches
         take place in type family equations. In Core,
         types can now be applied to coercions via the
         `CoercionTy` constructor.
      
       * Coercions can now be heterogeneous, relating types
         of different kinds. A coercion proving `t1 :: k1 ~ t2 :: k2`
         proves both that `t1` and `t2` are the same and also that
         `k1` and `k2` are the same.
      
       * The `Coercion` type has been significantly enhanced.
         The documentation in `docs/core-spec/core-spec.pdf` reflects
         the new reality.
      
       * The type of `*` is now `*`. No more `BOX`.
      
       * Users can write explicit kind variables in their code,
         anywhere they can write type variables. For backward compatibility,
         automatic inference of kind-variable binding is still permitted.
      
       * The new extension `TypeInType` turns on the new user-facing
         features.
      
       * Type families and synonyms are now promoted to kinds. This causes
         trouble with parsing `*`, leading to the somewhat awkward new
         `HsAppsTy` constructor for `HsType`. This is dispatched with in
         the renamer, where the kind `*` can be told apart from a
         type-level multiplication operator. Without `-XTypeInType` the
         old behavior persists. With `-XTypeInType`, you need to import
         `Data.Kind` to get `*`, also known as `Type`.
      
       * The kind-checking algorithms in TcHsType have been significantly
         rewritten to allow for enhanced kinds.
      
       * The new features are still quite experimental and may be in flux.
      
       * TODO: Several open tickets: #11195, #11196, #11197, #11198, #11203.
      
       * TODO: Update user manual.
      
      Tickets addressed: #9017, #9173, #7961, #10524, #8566, #11142.
      Updates Haddock submodule.
      67465497
  3. Oct 03, 2015
  4. Jul 30, 2015
    • Tamar Christina's avatar
      Make configure error out on missing ghc-tarballs on Windows · 9f7cdfee
      Tamar Christina authored and Ben Gamari's avatar Ben Gamari committed
      Currently checking out the source on windows requires two git
      checkouts. One for the GHC sources and one for the GHC-tarballs.
      
      This patch will make configure issue an error if compiling under
      windows and the GHC-tarballs folder is missing.
      
      On failure the user is told which command they need to run to get the
      tarballs or if they want configure to handle it for them configure
      provide the `--enable-tarballs-autodownload` flag.
      
      Test Plan:
      1. make sure ghc-tarballs folder is not present
      2. run ./configure which should fail giving an error that tarballs is
      missing and how to get it
      3. run ./configure --enable-tarballs-autodownload and the tarballs
      should be downloaded and configure finishes
      4. rerun the command in 3, no new download should be done.
      5. run configure without --enable-tarballs-autodownload, configure
      should finish correctly.
      
      Reviewers: bgamari, austin, thomie
      
      Reviewed By: thomie
      
      Subscribers: thomie
      
      Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1108
      
      GHC Trac Issues: #10705
      9f7cdfee
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