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Simon Peyton Jones authored
This single commit combines a lot of work done by Thijs Alkemade <thijsalkemade@gmail.com>, plus a slew of subsequent refactoring by Simon PJ. The basic idea is * Add a new expression form "_", a hole, standing for a not-yet-written expression * Give a useful error message that (a) gives the type of the hole (b) gives the types of some enclosing value bindings that mention the hole Driven by this goal I did a LOT of refactoring in TcErrors, which in turn allows us to report enclosing value bindings for other errors, not just holes. (Thijs rightly did not attempt this!) The major data type change is a new form of constraint data Ct = ... | CHoleCan { cc_ev :: CtEvidence, cc_hole_ty :: TcTauType, cc_depth :: SubGoalDepth } I'm still in two minds about whether this is the best plan. Another possibility would be to have a predicate type for holes, somthing like class Hole a where holeValue :: a It works the way it is, but there are some annoying special cases for CHoleCan (just grep for "CHoleCan").
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