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Simon Peyton Jones authored
This patch does a fairly major clean-up of the code that implements 'deriving. * The big changes are in TcDeriv, which is dramatically cleaned up. In particular, there is a clear split into a) inference of instance contexts for deriving clauses b) generation of the derived code, given a context Step (a) is skipped for standalone instance decls, which have an explicitly provided context. * The handling of "taggery", which is cooperative between TcDeriv and TcGenDeriv, is cleaned up a lot * I have added documentation for standalone deriving (which was previously wrong). * The Haskell report is vague on exactly when a deriving clause should succeed. Prodded by Conal I have loosened the rules slightly, thereyb making drv015 work again, and documented the rules in the user manual. I believe this patch validates ok (once I've update the test suite) and can go into the 6.8 branch.
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