Matthew Pickering authored 3 years ago and Marge Bot committed 3 years ago

Note [Tidying multiple names at once] indicates that if multiple
variables have the same name then we shouldn't prioritise one of them
and instead rename them all to a1, a2, a3... etc

This patch implements that change, some error message changes as
expected.

Closes #20932

Richard Eisenberg authored 4 years ago and Marge Bot committed 4 years ago

This patch redesigns the flattener to simplify type family applications
directly instead of using flattening meta-variables and skolems. The key new
innovation is the CanEqLHS type and the new CEqCan constraint (Ct). A CanEqLHS
is either a type variable or exactly-saturated type family application; either
can now be rewritten using a CEqCan constraint in the inert set.

Because the flattener no longer reduces all type family applications to
variables, there was some performance degradation if a lengthy type family
application is now flattened over and over (not making progress). To
compensate, this patch contains some extra optimizations in the flattener,
leading to a number of performance improvements.

Close #18875.
Close #18910.

There are many extra parts of the compiler that had to be affected in writing
this patch:

* The family-application cache (formerly the flat-cache) sometimes stores
  coercions built from Given inerts. When these inerts get kicked out, we must
  kick out from the cache as well. (This was, I believe, true previously, but
  somehow never caused trouble.) Kicking out from the cache requires adding a
  filterTM function to TrieMap.

* This patch obviates the need to distinguish "blocking" coercion holes from
  non-blocking ones (which, previously, arose from CFunEqCans). There is thus
  some simplification around coercion holes.

* Extra commentary throughout parts of the code I read through, to preserve
  the knowledge I gained while working.

* A change in the pure unifier around unifying skolems with other types.
  Unifying a skolem now leads to SurelyApart, not MaybeApart, as documented
  in Note [Binding when looking up instances] in GHC.Core.InstEnv.

* Some more use of MCoercion where appropriate.

* Previously, class-instance lookup automatically noticed that e.g. C Int was
  a "unifier" to a target [W] C (F Bool), because the F Bool was flattened to
  a variable. Now, a little more care must be taken around checking for
  unifying instances.

* Previously, tcSplitTyConApp_maybe would split (Eq a => a). This is silly,
  because (=>) is not a tycon in Haskell. Fixed now, but there are some
  knock-on changes in e.g. TrieMap code and in the canonicaliser.

* New function anyFreeVarsOf{Type,Co} to check whether a free variable
  satisfies a certain predicate.

* Type synonyms now remember whether or not they are "forgetful"; a forgetful
  synonym drops at least one argument. This is useful when flattening; see
  flattenView.

* The pattern-match completeness checker invokes the solver. This invocation
  might need to look through newtypes when checking representational equality.
  Thus, the desugarer needs to keep track of the in-scope variables to know
  what newtype constructors are in scope. I bet this bug was around before but
  never noticed.

* Extra-constraints wildcards are no longer simplified before printing.
  See Note [Do not simplify ConstraintHoles] in GHC.Tc.Solver.

* Whether or not there are Given equalities has become slightly subtler.
  See the new HasGivenEqs datatype.

* Note [Type variable cycles in Givens] in GHC.Tc.Solver.Canonical
  explains a significant new wrinkle in the new approach.

* See Note [What might match later?] in GHC.Tc.Solver.Interact, which
  explains the fix to #18910.

* The inert_count field of InertCans wasn't actually used, so I removed
  it.

Though I (Richard) did the implementation, Simon PJ was very involved
in design and review.

This updates the Haddock submodule to avoid #18932 by adding
a type signature.

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Metric Decrease:
    T12227
    T5030
    T9872a
    T9872b
    T9872c
Metric Increase:
    T9872d
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Simon Peyton Jones authored 5 years ago and Marge Bot committed 5 years ago

This patch avoids skolemiseUnboundMetaTyVar making
up a fresh Name when it doesn't need to.

See Note [Skolemising and identity]

Improves error messsages for partial type signatures.

Simon Peyton Jones authored 6 years ago and Marge Bot committed 6 years ago

The extra-constraints wildcard had lost its location
(issue #16431).

Happily this is easy to fix.  Lots of error improvements.

Summary:
This patch implements visible kind application (GHC Proposal 15/#12045), as well as #15360 and #15362.
It also refactors unnamed wildcard handling, and requires that type equations in type families in Template Haskell be
written with full type on lhs. PartialTypeSignatures are on and warnings are off automatically with visible kind
application, just like in term-level.

There are a few remaining issues with this patch, as documented in
ticket #16082.

Includes a submodule update for Haddock.

Test Plan: Tests T12045a/b/c/TH1/TH2, T15362, T15592a

Reviewers: simonpj, goldfire, bgamari, alanz, RyanGlScott, Iceland_jack

Subscribers: ningning, Iceland_jack, RyanGlScott, int-index, rwbarton, mpickering, carter

GHC Trac Issues: `#12045`, `#15362`, `#15592`, `#15788`, `#15793`, `#15795`, `#15797`, `#15799`, `#15801`, `#15807`, `#15816`

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D5229

Consider the type
  forall k. b -> k
where
  b :: k -> Type

Here the 'k' in b's kind must be a different 'k' to the forall k,
because 'b' is free in the expression.  So we must return 'k'
among the free vars returned from tyCoVarsOfType applied that
type.  But we weren't.

This is an outright bug, although we don't have a program that
fails because of it.

It's easy to fix, too: see TyCoRep
  Note [Closing over free variable kinds]

This fix has been in the pipeline for ages because it fell into
the Trac #14880 swamp.  But this patch nails it.

Trac #14394 showed that it's possible to get redundant
constraints in the inferred provided constraints of a pattern
synonym.  This patch removes the redundancy with mkMinimalBySCs.

To do this I had to generalise the type of mkMinimalBySCs slightly.
And, to reduce confusing reversal, I made it stable: it now returns
its result in the same order as its input.  That led to a raft of
error message wibbles, mostly for the better.

This patch does two things:

* When reporting a hole, we now include its kind if the
  kind is not just '*'.  This addresses Trac #14265

* When reporting things like "'a' is a rigid type varaible
  bound by ...", this patch arranges to group the type variables
  together, so we don't repeat the "bound by..." stuff endlessly

When we had
  f :: ( _ ) => blah
we were failing to call growThetaTyVars, as we do in the
no-type-signature case, and that meant that we weren't generalising
over the right type variables.  I'm quite surprised this didn't cause
problems earlier.

Anyway Trac #12844 showed it up and this patch fixes it