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This implements the ideas originally put forward in
"System FC with Explicit Kind Equality" (ICFP'13).

There are several noteworthy changes with this patch:
 * We now have casts in types. These change the kind
   of a type. See new constructor `CastTy`.

 * All types and all constructors can be promoted.
   This includes GADT constructors. GADT pattern matches
   take place in type family equations. In Core,
   types can now be applied to coercions via the
   `CoercionTy` constructor.

 * Coercions can now be heterogeneous, relating types
   of different kinds. A coercion proving `t1 :: k1 ~ t2 :: k2`
   proves both that `t1` and `t2` are the same and also that
   `k1` and `k2` are the same.

 * The `Coercion` type has been significantly enhanced.
   The documentation in `docs/core-spec/core-spec.pdf` reflects
   the new reality.

 * The type of `*` is now `*`. No more `BOX`.

 * Users can write explicit kind variables in their code,
   anywhere they can write type variables. For backward compatibility,
   automatic inference of kind-variable binding is still permitted.

 * The new extension `TypeInType` turns on the new user-facing
   features.

 * Type families and synonyms are now promoted to kinds. This causes
   trouble with parsing `*`, leading to the somewhat awkward new
   `HsAppsTy` constructor for `HsType`. This is dispatched with in
   the renamer, where the kind `*` can be told apart from a
   type-level multiplication operator. Without `-XTypeInType` the
   old behavior persists. With `-XTypeInType`, you need to import
   `Data.Kind` to get `*`, also known as `Type`.

 * The kind-checking algorithms in TcHsType have been significantly
   rewritten to allow for enhanced kinds.

 * The new features are still quite experimental and may be in flux.

 * TODO: Several open tickets: #11195, #11196, #11197, #11198, #11203.

 * TODO: Update user manual.

Tickets addressed: #9017, #9173, #7961, #10524, #8566, #11142.
Updates Haddock submodule.

In some cases, the layout of the LANGUAGE/OPTIONS_GHC lines has been
reorganized, while following the convention, to

- place `{-# LANGUAGE #-}` pragmas at the top of the source file, before
  any `{-# OPTIONS_GHC #-}`-lines.

- Moreover, if the list of language extensions fit into a single
  `{-# LANGUAGE ... -#}`-line (shorter than 80 characters), keep it on one
  line. Otherwise split into `{-# LANGUAGE ... -#}`-lines for each
  individual language extension. In both cases, try to keep the
  enumeration alphabetically ordered.
  (The latter layout is preferable as it's more diff-friendly)

While at it, this also replaces obsolete `{-# OPTIONS ... #-}` pragma
occurences by `{-# OPTIONS_GHC ... #-}` pragmas.

Roles are a solution to the GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving type-safety
problem.

Roles were first described in the "Generative type abstraction" paper,
by Stephanie Weirich, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Simon PJ, and Steve Zdancewic.
The implementation is a little different than that paper. For a quick
primer, check out Note [Roles] in Coercion. Also see
http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Roles
and
http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/RolesImplementation
For a more formal treatment, check out docs/core-spec/core-spec.pdf.

This fixes Trac #1496, #4846, #7148.

This commit changes the syntax and story around overlapping type
family instances. Before, we had "unbranched" instances and
"branched" instances. Now, we have closed type families and
open ones.

The behavior of open families is completely unchanged. In particular,
coincident overlap of open type family instances still works, despite
emails to the contrary.

A closed type family is declared like this:
> type family F a where
>   F Int = Bool
>   F a   = Char
The equations are tried in order, from top to bottom, subject to
certain constraints, as described in the user manual. It is not
allowed to declare an instance of a closed family.

An ordered, overlapping type family instance is introduced by 'type
instance
where', followed by equations. See the new section in the user manual
(7.7.2.2) for details. The canonical example is Boolean equality at the
type
level:

type family Equals (a :: k) (b :: k) :: Bool
type instance where
  Equals a a = True
  Equals a b = False

A branched family instance, such as this one, checks its equations in
order
and applies only the first the matches. As explained in the note
[Instance
checking within groups] in FamInstEnv.lhs, we must be careful not to
simplify,
say, (Equals Int b) to False, because b might later unify with Int.

This commit includes all of the commits on the overlapping-tyfams
branch. SPJ
requested that I combine all my commits over the past several months
into one
monolithic commit. The following GHC repos are affected: ghc, testsuite,
utils/haddock, libraries/template-haskell, and libraries/dph.

Here are some details for the interested:

- The definition of CoAxiom has been moved from TyCon.lhs to a
  new file CoAxiom.lhs. I made this decision because of the
  number of definitions necessary to support BranchList.

- BranchList is a GADT whose type tracks whether it is a
  singleton list or not-necessarily-a-singleton-list. The reason
  I introduced this type is to increase static checking of places
  where GHC code assumes that a FamInst or CoAxiom is indeed a
  singleton. This assumption takes place roughly 10 times
  throughout the code. I was worried that a future change to GHC
  would invalidate the assumption, and GHC might subtly fail to
  do the right thing. By explicitly labeling CoAxioms and
  FamInsts as being Unbranched (singleton) or
  Branched (not-necessarily-singleton), we make this assumption
  explicit and checkable. Furthermore, to enforce the accuracy of
  this label, the list of branches of a CoAxiom or FamInst is
  stored using a BranchList, whose constructors constrain its
  type index appropriately.

I think that the decision to use BranchList is probably the most
controversial decision I made from a code design point of view.
Although I provide conversions to/from ordinary lists, it is more
efficient to use the brList... functions provided in CoAxiom than
always to convert. The use of these functions does not wander far
from the core CoAxiom/FamInst logic.

BranchLists are motivated and explained in the note [Branched axioms] in
CoAxiom.lhs.

- The CoAxiom type has changed significantly. You can see the new
  type in CoAxiom.lhs. It uses a CoAxBranch type to track
  branches of the CoAxiom. Correspondingly various functions
  producing and consuming CoAxioms had to change, including the
  binary layout of interface files.

- To get branched axioms to work correctly, it is important to have a
  notion
  of type "apartness": two types are apart if they cannot unify, and no
  substitution of variables can ever get them to unify, even after type
family
  simplification. (This is different than the normal failure to unify
because
  of the type family bit.) This notion in encoded in tcApartTys, in
Unify.lhs.
  Because apartness is finer-grained than unification, the tcUnifyTys
now
  calls tcApartTys.

- CoreLinting axioms has been updated, both to reflect the new
  form of CoAxiom and to enforce the apartness rules of branch
  application. The formalization of the new rules is in
  docs/core-spec/core-spec.pdf.

- The FamInst type (in types/FamInstEnv.lhs) has changed
  significantly, paralleling the changes to CoAxiom. Of course,
  this forced minor changes in many files.

- There are several new Notes in FamInstEnv.lhs, including one
  discussing confluent overlap and why we're not doing it.

- lookupFamInstEnv, lookupFamInstEnvConflicts, and
  lookup_fam_inst_env' (the function that actually does the work)
  have all been more-or-less completely rewritten. There is a
  Note [lookup_fam_inst_env' implementation] describing the
  implementation. One of the changes that affects other files is
  to change the type of matches from a pair of (FamInst, [Type])
  to a new datatype (which now includes the index of the matching
  branch). This seemed a better design.

- The TySynInstD constructor in Template Haskell was updated to
  use the new datatype TySynEqn. I also bumped the TH version
  number, requiring changes to DPH cabal files. (That's why the
  DPH repo has an overlapping-tyfams branch.)

- As SPJ requested, I refactored some of the code in HsDecls:

 * splitting up TyDecl into SynDecl and DataDecl, correspondingly
   changing HsTyDefn to HsDataDefn (with only one constructor)

 * splitting FamInstD into TyFamInstD and DataFamInstD and
   splitting FamInstDecl into DataFamInstDecl and TyFamInstDecl

 * making the ClsInstD take a ClsInstDecl, for parallelism with
   InstDecl's other constructors

 * changing constructor TyFamily into FamDecl

 * creating a FamilyDecl type that stores the details for a family
   declaration; this is useful because FamilyDecls can appear in classes
but
   other decls cannot

 * restricting the associated types and associated type defaults for a
 * class
   to be the new, more restrictive types

 * splitting cid_fam_insts into cid_tyfam_insts and cid_datafam_insts,
   according to the new types

 * perhaps one or two more that I'm overlooking

None of these changes has far-reaching implications.

- The user manual, section 7.7.2.2, is updated to describe the new type
  family
  instances.

This patch should have no user-visible effect.  It implements a
significant internal refactoring of the way that FC axioms are
handled.  The ultimate goal is to put us in a position to implement
"pattern-matching axioms".  But the changes here are only does
refactoring; there is no change in functionality.

Specifically:

 * We now treat data/type family instance declarations very,
   very similarly to types class instance declarations:

   - Renamed InstEnv.Instance as InstEnv.ClsInst, for symmetry with
     FamInstEnv.FamInst.  This change does affect the GHC API, but
     for the better I think.

   - Previously, each family type/data instance declaration gave rise
     to a *TyCon*; typechecking a type/data instance decl produced
     that TyCon.  Now, each type/data instance gives rise to
     a *FamInst*, by direct analogy with each class instance
     declaration giving rise to a ClsInst.

   - Just as each ClsInst contains its evidence, a DFunId, so each FamInst
     contains its evidence, a CoAxiom.  See Note [FamInsts and CoAxioms]
     in FamInstEnv.  The CoAxiom is a System-FC thing, and can relate any
     two types, whereas the FamInst relates directly to the Haskell source
     language construct, and always has a function (F tys) on the LHS.

   - Just as a DFunId has its own declaration in an interface file, so now
     do CoAxioms (see IfaceSyn.IfaceAxiom).

   These changes give rise to almost all the refactoring.

 * We used to have a hack whereby a type family instance produced a dummy
   type synonym, thus
      type instance F Int = Bool -> Bool
   translated to
      axiom FInt :: F Int ~ R:FInt
      type R:FInt = Bool -> Bool
   This was always a hack, and now it's gone.  Instead the type instance
   declaration produces a FamInst, whose axiom has kind
      axiom FInt :: F Int ~ Bool -> Bool
   just as you'd expect.

 * Newtypes are done just as before; they generate a CoAxiom. These
   CoAxioms are "implicit" (do not generate an IfaceAxiom declaration),
   unlike the ones coming from family instance declarations.  See
   Note [Implicit axioms] in TyCon

On the whole the code gets significantly nicer.  There were consequential
tidy-ups in the vectoriser, but I think I got them right.

* Correct usage of new type wrappers from MkId
* 'VECTORISE [SCALAR] type T = S' didn't work correctly across module boundaries
* Clean up 'VECTORISE SCALAR instance'

* Frontend support (not yet used in the vectoriser)

* No more use of hardcoded original names
* Initialisation of the desugarer monad loads 'Data.Array.Parallel.Prim' if -fdph-* given
* Initialisation of the vectoriser gets all built-in names from there

See the paper "Practical aspects of evidence based compilation in System FC"

* Coercion becomes a data type, distinct from Type

* Coercions become value-level things, rather than type-level things,
  (although the value is zero bits wide, like the State token)
  A consequence is that a coerion abstraction increases the arity by 1
  (just like a dictionary abstraction)

* There is a new constructor in CoreExpr, namely Coercion, to inject
  coercions into terms