Default methods not in scope for spliced-in instances?

This is a literate haskell bugreport. Save it to
DefaultMethodScopeTH.lhs.

I noticed a problem with instantiating a typeclasse
from Template
Haskell in the same module that defined it. I've bumped
into this
twice close together now, so I figure I really ought to
report it now.

> {-# OPTIONS_GHC -fth #-}
> 
> module DefaultMethodScopeTH where

First, define a typeclass with a default method.

This is probably not a very usefull class, but nobody
wants me to drag
half of the module I'm actually working on into this ;-).

> class Foo a where
>     foo :: a -> a
>     foo = id

Now try to instantiate it from TH with the default method.

> $([d| instance Foo () where |])

Nothing particularly complicated, right?

But when I try to actually build it, I get this:

$ ghc --make DefaultMethodScopeTH.lhs
Chasing modules from: DefaultMethodScopeTH.lhs
Compiling DefaultMethodScopeTH (
DefaultMethodScopeTH.lhs, DefaultMethodScopeTH.o )

DefaultMethodScopeTH.lhs:22:7:
    GHC internal error: `DefaultMethodScopeTH.$dmfoo'
is not in scope
    In the definition of `foo': foo =
DefaultMethodScopeTH.$dmfoo
    In the definition for method `foo'
    In the instance declaration for `Foo ()'

Kind of nasty, eh?

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Trac field	Value
Version	6.4
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	ResolvedFixed
Component	Template Haskell
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