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This patch makes a number of related improvements

a) Implements the Haskell Prime semantics for pattern bindings
   (Trac #2357).  That is, a pattern binding p = e is typed
   just as if it had been written
        t = e
        f = case t of p -> f
        g = case t of p -> g
        ... etc ...
   where f,g are the variables bound by p. In paricular it's
   ok to say
      (f,g) = (\x -> x, \y -> True)
   and f and g will get propertly inferred types
      f :: a -> a
      g :: a -> Int

b) Eliminates the MonoPatBinds flag altogether.  (For the moment
   it is deprecated and has no effect.)  Pattern bindings are now
   generalised as per (a).  Fixes Trac #2187 and #4940, in the
   way the users wanted!

c) Improves the OutsideIn algorithm generalisation decision.
   Given a definition without a type signature (implying "infer
   the type"), the published algorithm rule is this:
      - generalise *top-level* functions, and
      - do not generalise *nested* functions
   The new rule is
      - generalise a binding whose free variables have
        Guaranteed Closed Types
      - do not generalise other bindings

   Generally, a top-level let-bound function has a Guaranteed
   Closed Type, and so does a nested function whose free vaiables
   are top-level functions, and so on. (However a top-level
   function that is bitten by the Monomorphism Restriction does
   not have a GCT.)

   Example:
     f x = let { foo y = y } in ...
   Here 'foo' has no free variables, so it is generalised despite
   being nested.

d) When inferring a type f :: ty for a definition f = e, check that
   the compiler would accept f :: ty as a type signature for that
   same definition.  The type is rejected precisely when the type
   is ambiguous.

   Example:
      class Wob a b where
        to :: a -> b
        from :: b -> a

      foo x = [x, to (from x)]
   GHC 7.0 would infer the ambiguous type
      foo :: forall a b. Wob a b => b -> [b]
   but that type would give an error whenever it is called; and
   GHC 7.0 would reject that signature if given by the
   programmer.  The new type checker rejects it up front.

   Similarly, with the advent of type families, ambiguous types are
   easy to write by mistake.  See Trac #1897 and linked tickets for
   many examples.  Eg
      type family F a :: *
      f ::: F a -> Int
      f x = 3
   This is rejected because (F a ~ F b) does not imply a~b.  Previously
   GHC would *infer* the above type for f, but was unable to check it.
   Now even the inferred type is rejected -- correctly.

The main implemenation mechanism is to generalise the abe_wrap
field of ABExport (in HsBinds), from [TyVar] to HsWrapper. This
beautiful generalisation turned out to make everything work nicely
with minimal programming effort.  All the work was fiddling around
the edges; the core change was easy!

The -w flag wasn't turning off a few warnings (Opt_WarnMissingImportList,
Opt_WarnMissingLocalSigs, Opt_WarnIdentities). Rather than just adding
them, I've separated the Opt_Warn* contructors off into their own type,
so -w now just sets the list of warning flags to [].

It was already deprecated, and marked for removal in 7.2.

We no longer advertise that we support the Generics extension,
although we still do accept -XGenerics and -XNoGenerics flags
(but warn that we are ignoring them).

I also remove the even older -fgenerics and -fno-generics flags.

It used to take a whole DynFlags, but that meant we had to
create a DynFlags with (panic "No settings") for settings, as
we didn't have any real settings.

Now we just pass the LogAction, which is all that it actually needed.
The default is exported from DynFlags as defaultLogAction.

This was done as we originally planned for SafeHaskell to provide
some compilation safety. We have dropped this though and instead
intend for a new static flag, '--safecompile' that provides
this instead in an orthogonal way to SafeHaskell.

Now ghc supports:
  - trust => Set a package to be trusted
  - distrust => Set a package to be untrusted
  - distrust-all-package => Set all packages to be untrusted by default

Problem with -fforce-recomp not picking up changed Safe flags correctly
fixed. Also now disable Template Haskell completely.

This patch disables the use of some GHC extensions in
Safe mode and also the use of certain flags. Some
are disabled completely while others are only allowed
on the command line and not in source PRAGMAS.

We also check that Safe imports are indeed importing
a Safe or Trustworthy module.

This patch was originally developed by Max Bolingbroke, and worked on
further by Austin Seipp.  It allows you to write a Core-to-Core pass
and have it dynamically linked into an otherwise-unmodified GHC, and
run at a place you specify in the Core optimisation pipeline.

Main components:
  - CoreMonad: new types Plugin, PluginPass
               plus a new constructor CoreDoPluginPass in CoreToDo

  - SimplCore: stuff to dynamically load any plugins, splice
    them into the core-to-core pipeline, and invoke them

  - Move "getCoreToDo :: DynFlags -> [CoreToDo]"
      which constructs the main core-to-core pipeline
      from CoreMonad to SimplCore
    SimplCore is the driver for the optimisation pipeline, and it
    makes more sense to have the pipeline construction in the driver
    not in the infrastructure module.

  - New module DynamicLoading: invoked by SimplCore to load any plugins
    Some consequential changes in Linker.

  - New module GhcPlugins: this should be imported by plugin modules; it
    it not used by GHC itself.

CoreUnfold.sizeExpr (oops, forgot to push this patch along with the
others yesterday, and this caused a few test failures overnight).

The Haskell' committee decided to remove datatype contexts from the language:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-prime/2011-January/003335.html

Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@mit.edu>

Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@mit.edu>