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Simon Peyton Jones authored
Trac #15290 showed that it's possible that we might attempt to use a quantified constraint to solve an equality in a situation where we don't have anywhere to put the evidence bindings. This made GHC crash. This patch stops the crash, but still rejects the pogram. See Note [Instances in no-evidence implications] in TcInteract. Finding this bug revealed another lurking bug: * An infelicity in the treatment of superclasses -- we were expanding them locally at the leaves, rather than at their binding site; see (3a) in Note [The superclass story]. As a consequence, TcRnTypes.superclassesMightHelp must look inside implications. In more detail: * Stop the crash, by making TcInteract.chooseInstance test for the no-evidence-bindings case. In that case we simply don't use the instance. This entailed a slight change to the type of chooseInstance. * Make TcSMonad.getPendingScDicts (now renamed getPendingGivenScs) return only Givens from the /current level/; and make TcRnTypes.superClassesMightHelp look inside implications. * Refactor the simpl_loop and superclass-expansion stuff in TcSimplify. The logic is much easier to understand now, and has less duplication.
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