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Simon Peyton Jones authored
Without -XImpredicativeTypes, the typing rules say that a function should be instantiated only at a *monotype*. In implementation terms, that means that a unification variable should not unify with a type involving foralls. But we were not enforcing that rule, and that gave rise to some confusing error messages, such as Trac #7264, #6069 This patch adds the test for foralls. There are consequences * I put the test in occurCheckExpand, since that is where we see if a type can unify with a given unification variable. So occurCheckExpand has to get DynFlags, so it can test for -XImpredicativeTypes * We want this to work foo :: (forall a. a -> a) -> Int foo = error "foo" But that means instantiating error at a polytype! But error is special already because you can instantiate it at an unboxed type like Int#. So I extended the specialness to allow type variables of openTypeKind to unify with polytypes, regardless of -XImpredicativeTypes. Conveniently, this works in TcUnify.matchExpectedFunTys, which generates unification variable for the function arguments, which can be polymorphic. * GHC has a special typing rule for ($) (see Note [Typing rule for ($)] in TcExpr). It unifies the argument and result with a unification variable to exclude unboxed types -- but that means I now need a kind of unificatdion variable that *can* unify with a polytype. So for this sole case I added PolyTv to the data type TcType.MetaInfo. I suspect we'll find mor uses for this, and the changes are tiny, but it still feel a bit of a hack. Well the special rule for ($) is a hack! There were some consequential changes in error reporting (TcErrors).
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