Reject nested predicates in impredicativity checking
When GHC attempts to unify a metavariable with a type containing foralls, it will be rejected as an occurrence of impredicativity. GHC was /not/ extending the same treatment to predicate types, such as in the following (erroneous) example from #11514 (closed):
foo :: forall a. (Show a => a -> a) -> ()
foo = undefined
This will attempt to instantiate undefined
at
(Show a => a -> a) -> ()
, which is impredicative. This patch
catches impredicativity arising from predicates in this fashion.
Since GHC is pickier about impredicative instantiations, some test
cases needed to be updated to be updated so as not to fall afoul of
the new validity check. (There were a surprising number of
impredicative uses of undefined
!) Moreover, the T14828
test case
now has slightly less informative types shown with :print
. This is
due to a a much deeper issue with the GHCi debugger (see #14828 (closed)).
Fixes #11514 (closed).