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Simon Peyton Jones authored
Trac #1430 showed up quite a nasty bug in the handling of implication constraints when we are *inferring* the type of a function. See Note [Inference and implication constraints]: We can't (or at least don't) abstract over implications. But we might have an implication constraint (perhaps arising from a nested pattern match) like C a => D a when we are now trying to quantify over 'a'. Our best approximation is to make (D a) part of the inferred context, so we can use that to discharge the implication. Hence getImplicWanteds. My solution is not marvellous, but it's better than before. I transferred function getDefaultableDicts from Inst to TcSimplify (since it's only called there). Many of the remaining 50 new lines are comments. But there is undoubtedly more code than before (sigh). Test is tc228.
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