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Richard Eisenberg authored
Bug #15380 hangs because a knot-tied TyCon ended up in a kind. Looking at the code in tcInferApps, I'm amazed this hasn't happened before! I couldn't think of a good way to fix it (with dependent types, we can't really keep types out of kinds, after all), so I just went ahead and removed the knot. This was remarkably easy to do. In tcTyVar, when we find a TcTyCon, just use it. (Previously, we looked up the knot-tied TyCon and used that.) Then, during the final zonk, replace TcTyCons with the real, full-blooded TyCons in the global environment. It's all very easy. The new bit is explained in the existing Note [Type checking recursive type and class declarations] in TcTyClsDecls. Naturally, I removed various references to the knot and the zonkTcTypeInKnot (and related) functions. Now, we can print types during type checking with abandon! NB: There is a teensy error message regression with this patch, around the ordering of quantified type variables. This ordering problem is fixed (I believe) with the patch for #14880. The ordering affects only internal variables that cannot be instantiated with any kind of visible type application. There is also a teensy regression around the printing of types in TH splices. I think this is really a TH bug and will file separately. Test case: dependent/should_fail/T15380
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