This implements the `DerivingVia` proposal put forth in
https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/120.

This introduces the `DerivingVia` deriving strategy. This is a
generalization of `GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving` that permits the user
to specify the type to `coerce` from.

The major change in this patch is the introduction of the
`ViaStrategy` constructor to `DerivStrategy`, which takes a type
as a field. As a result, `DerivStrategy` is no longer a simple
enumeration type, but rather something that must be renamed and
typechecked. The process by which this is done is explained more
thoroughly in section 3 of this paper
( https://www.kosmikus.org/DerivingVia/deriving-via-paper.pdf ),
although I have inlined the relevant parts into Notes where possible.

There are some knock-on changes as well. I took the opportunity to
do some refactoring of code in `TcDeriv`, especially the
`mkNewTypeEqn` function, since it was bundling all of the logic for
(1) deriving instances for newtypes and
(2) `GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving`
into one huge broth. `DerivingVia` reuses much of part (2), so that
was factored out as much as possible.

Bumps the Haddock submodule.

Test Plan: ./validate

Reviewers: simonpj, bgamari, goldfire, alanz

Subscribers: alanz, goldfire, rwbarton, thomie, mpickering, carter

GHC Trac Issues: #15178

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4684

Commit 08073e16 (#11066) ended up
fixing these, fortunately enough.

Trac #15009 showed that, for Given TyVar/TyVar equalities, we really
want to orient them with the deepest-bound skolem on the left. As it
happens, we also want to do the same for Wanteds, but for a different
reason (more likely to be touchable).  Either way, deepest wins:
see TcUnify Note [Deeper level on the left].

This observation led me to some significant changes:

* A SkolemTv already had a TcLevel, but the level wasn't really being
  used.   Now it is!

* I updated added invariant (SkolInf) to TcType
  Note [TcLevel and untouchable type variables], documenting that
  the level number of all the ic_skols should be the same as the
  ic_tclvl of the implication

* FlatSkolTvs and FlatMetaTvs previously had a dummy level-number of
  zero, which messed the scheme up.   Now they get a level number the
  same way as all other TcTyVars, instead of being a special case.

* To make sure that FlatSkolTvs and FlatMetaTvs are untouchable (which
  was previously done via their magic zero level) isTouchableMetaTyVar
  just tests for those two cases.

* TcUnify.swapOverTyVars is the crucial orientation function; see the
  new Note [TyVar/TyVar orientation].  I completely rewrote this function,
  and it's now much much easier to understand.

I ended up doing some related refactoring, of course

* I noticed that tcImplicitTKBndrsX and tcExplicitTKBndrsX were doing
  a lot of useless work in the case where there are no skolems; I
  added a fast-patch

* Elminate the un-used tcExplicitTKBndrsSig; and thereby get rid of
  the higher-order parameter to tcExpliciTKBndrsX.

* Replace TcHsType.emitTvImplication with TcUnify.checkTvConstraints,
  by analogy with TcUnify.checkConstraints.

* Inline TcUnify.buildImplication into its only call-site in
  TcUnify.checkConstraints

* TcS.buildImplication becomes TcS.CheckConstraintsTcS, with a
  simpler API

* Now that we have NoEvBindsVar we have no need of termEvidenceAllowed;
  nuke the latter, adding Note [No evidence bindings] to TcEvidence.

Under certain circumstances, `GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving`
can emit code which uses unboxed tuple types, but if `UnboxedTuples`
wasn't enabled, the error message that GHC gave didn't make it very
clear that it could be worked around by explicitly enabling the
extension. Easily fixed.

Test Plan: make test TEST=T15073

Reviewers: bgamari

Reviewed By: bgamari

Subscribers: simonpj, thomie, carter

GHC Trac Issues: #15073

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4620

Trying to determine when to insert parentheses during TH
conversion is a bit of a mess. There is an assortment of functions
that try to detect this, such as:

* `hsExprNeedsParens`
* `isCompoundHsType`
* `hsPatNeedsParens`
* `isCompoundPat`
* etc.

To make things worse, each of them have slightly different semantics.
Plus, they don't work well in the presence of explicit type
signatures, as #14875 demonstrates.

All of these problems can be alleviated with the use of an explicit
precedence argument (much like what `showsPrec` currently does). To
accomplish this, I introduce a new `PprPrec` data type, and define
standard predences for things like function application, infix
operators, function arrows, and explicit type signatures (that last
one is new). I then added `PprPrec` arguments to the various
`-NeedsParens` functions, and use them to make smarter decisions
about when things need to be parenthesized.

A nice side effect is that functions like `isCompoundHsType` are
now completely unneeded, since they're simply aliases for
`hsTypeNeedsParens appPrec`. As a result, I did a bit of refactoring
to remove these sorts of functions. I also did a pass over various
utility functions in GHC for constructing AST forms and used more
appropriate precedences where convenient.

Along the way, I also ripped out the existing `TyPrec`
data type (which was tailor-made for pretty-printing `Type`s) and
replaced it with `PprPrec` for consistency.

Test Plan: make test TEST=T14875

Reviewers: alanz, goldfire, bgamari

Reviewed By: bgamari

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, carter

GHC Trac Issues: #14875

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4688

The main job of this commit is to track more accurately the scope
of tyvars introduced by user-written foralls. For example, it would
be to have something like this:

  forall a. Int -> (forall k (b :: k). Proxy '[a, b]) -> Bool

In that type, a's kind must be k, but k isn't in scope. We had a
terrible way of doing this before (not worth repeating or describing
here, but see the old tcImplicitTKBndrs and friends), but now
we have a principled approach: make an Implication when kind-checking
a forall. Doing so then hooks into the existing machinery for
preventing skolem-escape, performing floating, etc. This also means
that we bump the TcLevel whenever going into a forall.

The new behavior is done in TcHsType.scopeTyVars, but see also
TcHsType.tc{Im,Ex}plicitTKBndrs, which have undergone significant
rewriting. There are several Notes near there to guide you. Of
particular interest there is that Implication constraints can now
have skolems that are out of order; this situation is reported in
TcErrors.

A major consequence of this is a slightly tweaked process for type-
checking type declarations. The new Note [Use SigTvs in kind-checking
pass] in TcTyClsDecls lays it out.

The error message for dependent/should_fail/TypeSkolEscape has become
noticeably worse. However, this is because the code in TcErrors goes to
some length to preserve pre-8.0 error messages for kind errors. It's time
to rip off that plaster and get rid of much of the kind-error-specific
error messages. I tried this, and doing so led to a lovely error message
for TypeSkolEscape. So: I'm accepting the error message quality regression
for now, but will open up a new ticket to fix it, along with a larger
error-message improvement I've been pondering. This applies also to
dependent/should_fail/{BadTelescope2,T14066,T14066e}, polykinds/T11142.

Other minor changes:
 - isUnliftedTypeKind didn't look for tuples and sums. It does now.

 - check_type used check_arg_type on both sides of an AppTy. But the left
   side of an AppTy isn't an arg, and this was causing a bad error message.
   I've changed it to use check_type on the left-hand side.

 - Some refactoring around when we print (TYPE blah) in error messages.
   The changes decrease the times when we do so, to good effect.
   Of course, this is still all controlled by
   -fprint-explicit-runtime-reps

Fixes #14066 #14749

Test cases: dependent/should_compile/{T14066a,T14749},
            dependent/should_fail/T14066{,c,d,e,f,g,h}

Manually-written instances and standalone-derived instances
have the benefit of having the `checkValidInstHead` function run over
them, which catches manual instances of built-in types like `(~)` and
`Coercible`. However, instances generated from `deriving` clauses
weren't being passed through `checkValidInstHead`, leading to
confusing results as in #14916.

`checkValidInstHead` also has additional validity checks for language
extensions like `FlexibleInstances` and `MultiParamTypeClasses`. Up
until now, GHC has never required these language extensions for
`deriving` clause, so to avoid unnecessary breakage, I opted to
suppress these language extension checks for `deriving` clauses, just
like we currently suppress them for `SPECIALIZE instance` pragmas.

Test Plan: make test TEST=T14916

Reviewers: goldfire, bgamari

Reviewed By: bgamari

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, carter

GHC Trac Issues: #14916

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4501

The way GHC was handling `DeriveAnyClass` was subtly wrong
in two notable ways:

* In `inferConstraintsDAC`, we were //always// bumping the `TcLevel`
  of newly created unification variables, under the assumption that
  we would always place those unification variables inside an
  implication constraint. But #14932 showed precisely the scenario
  where we had `DeriveAnyClass` //without// any of the generated
  constraints being used inside an implication, which made GHC
  incorrectly believe the unification variables were untouchable.
* Even worse, we were using the generated unification variables from
  `inferConstraintsDAC` in every single iteration of `simplifyDeriv`.
  In #14933, however, we have a scenario where we fill in a
  unification variable with a skolem in one iteration, discard it,
  proceed on to another iteration, use the same unification variable
  (still filled in with the old skolem), and try to unify it with
  a //new// skolem! This results in an utter disaster.

The root of both these problems is `inferConstraintsDAC`. This patch
fixes the issue by no longer generating unification variables
directly in `inferConstraintsDAC`. Instead, we store the original
variables from a generic default type signature in `to_metas`, a new
field of `ThetaOrigin`, and in each iteration of `simplifyDeriv`, we
generate fresh meta tyvars (avoiding the second issue). Moreover,
this allows us to more carefully fine-tune the `TcLevel` under which
we create these meta tyvars, fixing the first issue.

Test Plan: make test TEST="T14932 T14933"

Reviewers: simonpj, bgamari

Reviewed By: simonpj

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, carter

GHC Trac Issues: #14932, #14933

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4507

Summary:
In commit dbd81f7e, a
regression was inadvertently introduced which caused derived `Read`
instances for record data types with fields ending in a `#` symbol
(using `MagicHash`) would no longer parse on valid output. This
is ultimately due to the same reasons as #5041, as we cannot parse
a field name like `foo#` as a single identifier. We fix this issue
by employing the same workaround as in #5041: first parse the
identifier name `foo`, then then symbol `#`.

This is accomplished by the new `readFieldHash` function in
`GHC.Read`. This will likely warrant a `base-4.11.1.0` release.

Test Plan: make test TEST=T14918

Reviewers: tdammers, hvr, bgamari

Reviewed By: bgamari

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, carter

GHC Trac Issues: #14918

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4502

It turns out that one can produce ill-formed Core by
combining `GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving`, `TypeInType`, and
`TypeFamilies`, as demonstrated in #14728. The root of the problem
is allowing the last parameter of a class to appear in a //kind// of
an associated type family, as our current approach to deriving
associated type family instances simply doesn't work well for that
situation.

Although it might be possible to properly implement this feature
today (see https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14728#comment:3
for a sketch of how this might work), there does not currently exist
a performant implementation of the algorithm needed to accomplish
this. Until such an implementation surfaces, we will make this corner
case of `GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving` an error.

Test Plan: make test TEST="T14728a T14728b"

Reviewers: bgamari

Reviewed By: bgamari

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, carter

GHC Trac Issues: #14728

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4402

Currently, any standalone-derived instance must satisfy the
property that the tycon of the data type having an instance being
derived for it must be either a normal ADT tycon or a data family
tycon. But there are several other primitive tycons—such as `(->)`,
`Int#`, and others—which cannot have standalone-derived instances
(via the `anyclass` strategy) as a result of this check! See
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13154#comment:8 for an
example of where this overly conservative restriction bites.

Really, this validity check only makes sense in the context of
`stock` deriving, where we need the property that the tycon is that
of a normal ADT or a data family in order to inspect its data
constructors. Other deriving strategies don't require this validity
check, so the most sensible way to fix this error is to move the
logic of this check into `cond_stdOK`, which is specific to
`stock` deriving.

This makes progress towards fixing (but does not entirely fix)

Test Plan: make test TEST=T13154a

Reviewers: bgamari

Reviewed By: bgamari

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, carter

GHC Trac Issues: #13154

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4337

A silly mistake in `gen_Show_binds` was causing derived
`Show` instances for empty data types to case on the precedence
argument instead of the actual value being showed.

Test Plan: make test TEST=drv-empty-data

Reviewers: bgamari

Reviewed By: bgamari

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, carter

GHC Trac Issues: #14692

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4328

It turns out that `Convert` was recklessly leaving off
parentheses in two places:

* Negative numeric literals
* Patterns in lambda position

This patch fixes it by adding three new functions, `isCompoundHsLit`,
`isCompoundHsOverLit`, and `isCompoundPat`, and using them in the
right places in `Convert`. While I was in town, I also sprinkled
`isCompoundPat` among some `Pat`-constructing functions in `HsUtils`
to help avoid the likelihood of this problem happening in other
places. One of these places is in `TcGenDeriv`, and sprinkling
`isCompountPat` there fixes #14682

Test Plan: make test TEST="T14681 T14682"

Reviewers: alanz, goldfire, bgamari

Reviewed By: bgamari

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, carter

GHC Trac Issues: #14681, #14682

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4323

Summary:
`GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving` generates calls to `coerce`
which take visible type arguments. These types must be produced by
way of `typeToLHsType`, which converts a `Type` to an `LHsType`.
However, `typeToLHsType` was leaving off important kind information
when a `Type` contained a poly-kinded tycon application, leading to
incorrectly generated code in #14579.

This fixes the issue by tweaking `typeToLHsType` to generate
explicit kind signatures for tycon applications. This makes the
generated code noisier, but at least the program from #14579 now
works correctly.

Test Plan: make test TEST=T14579

Reviewers: simonpj, bgamari

Reviewed By: simonpj

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, carter

GHC Trac Issues: #14579

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4264

Summary:
Previously, I added an ad hoc check for unboxed tuples and
sums in standalone-derived instances to fix #12512, under the
pretense that polymorphism over `UnboxedTupleRep` and
`UnboxedSumRep` was a lie. But that is no longer the case, and so
this ad hoc check can be removed entirely. Less code, and easier to
understand.

Test Plan: make test TEST=T12512

Reviewers: bgamari

Reviewed By: bgamari

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, carter

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4271

Summary:
The `HsType` pretty-printer does not automatically insert
parentheses where necessary for type applications, so a function
`isCompoundHsType` was created in D4056 towards this purpose.
However, it was not used in as many places as it ought to be,
resulting in #14578.

Test Plan: make test TEST=T14578

Reviewers: alanz, bgamari, simonpj

Reviewed By: alanz, simonpj

Subscribers: simonpj, rwbarton, thomie, carter

GHC Trac Issues: #14578

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4266

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 implements the `EmptyDataDeriving` proposal put forth in
https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/dbf51608/proposals/0006-deriving-empty.rst.
This has two major changes:

* The introduction of an `EmptyDataDeriving` extension, which
  permits directly deriving `Eq`, `Ord`, `Read`, and `Show` instances
  for empty data types.
* An overhaul in the code that is emitted in derived instances for
  empty data types. To see an overview of the changes brought forth,
  refer to the changes to the 8.4.1 release notes.

Test Plan: ./validate

Reviewers: bgamari, dfeuer, austin, hvr, goldfire

Reviewed By: bgamari

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie

GHC Trac Issues: #7401, #10577, #13117

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4047

Summary:
According to the GHC users' guide, one cannot derive
instances for data types in `.hs-boot` files.
However, GHC was not enforcing this in practice, which led to
#14365.

Fix this by actually throwing an error if a derived instance is
detected in an `.hs-boot` file (and recommend how to fix it in the
error message.)

Test Plan: make test TEST=T14365

Reviewers: ezyang, austin, bgamari, simonpj

Reviewed By: simonpj

Subscribers: simonpj, rwbarton, thomie

GHC Trac Issues: #14365

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4102

Trac #14331 showed that in a data type decl like

   data D = D deriving (C (a :: k))

we were quantifying D over the 'k' in the deriving clause.  Yikes.

Easily fixed, by deleting code in RnTypes.extractDataDefnKindVars

See the discussion on the ticket, esp comment:8.

I'm astonished that anything worked without this!

Fixes Trac #14339

This patch is a pure refactoring, which I've wanted to do for
some time.  The main payload is

* Remove the wc_insol field from WantedConstraints;
  instead put all the insolubles in wc_simple

* Remove inert_insols from InertCans
  Instead put all the insolubles in inert_irreds

* Add a cc_insol flag to CIrredCan, to record that
  the constraint is definitely insoluble

Reasons

* Quite a bit of code gets slightly simpler
* Fewer concepts to keep separate
* Insolubles don't happen at all in production code that is
  just being recompiled, so previously there was a lot of
  moving-about of empty sets

A couple of error messages acutally improved.

Now that `mtl` and `parsec` are boot libraries, there's no need to
qualify various tests in the testsuite with `reqlib('mtl')` or
`reqlib('parsec')`.

Test Plan: make test TEST="T4809 tcfail126 T4355 tc232 tc223 tc220
tc217 tc183 T5303 DoParamM qq005 qq006 galois_raytrace T1074 mod133
T3787 T4316 prog011 drvfail006 drvfail008"

Reviewers: bgamari, austin

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3855

Summary:
For some asinine reason, we were suppressing warnings when
deriving associated type family instances with `DeriveAnyClass`. That seems
like a bad idea. Let's not do that.

Along the way, I noticed that the error contexts associated with these
newly emitted warnings were less than ideal, so I did some minor refactoring
to improve the story there.

Fixes #14094

Test Plan: ./validate

Reviewers: bgamari, austin

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie

GHC Trac Issues: #14094

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3828

Summary:
`Typeable{1..7}` (type synonyms for the poly-kinded `Typeable`) have
been deprecated since GHC 7.8. They're now causing problems for users who try
to still work with them in legacy code, since they can no longer be used in
instances. To avoid this sort of confusion, let's just remove `Typeable{1..7}`
altogether. Resolves #14047.

Reviewers: bgamari, austin, hvr

Reviewed By: bgamari

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie

GHC Trac Issues: #14047

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3817

Simon Peyton Jones authored 7 years ago and Ryan Scott committed 7 years ago

This was a simple slip, that gave rise to the bug reported in
comment:13 of Trac #14045.  We were supplying roles to mkAlgTyCon
that didn't match the tyvars.

Trac #13998 showed that default methods were getting bogus tyvar
binder visiblity info; and that it matters in the code genreated
by the default-method fill-in mechanism

* The actual fix: in TcTyDecls.mkDefaultMethodType, make TyVarBinders
  with the right visibility info by getting TyConBinders from the
  class TyCon.  (Previously we made up visiblity info, but that
  caused #13998.)

* Define TyCon.tyConTyVarBinders :: [TyConBinder] -> [TyVarBinder]
  which can build correct forall binders for
    a) default methods (Trac #13998)
    b) data constructors
  This was originally BuildTyCl.mkDataConUnivTyVarBinders

* Move mkTyVarBinder, mkTyVarBinders from Type to Var

Summary:
Previously, one could experience error cascades with deriving clauses
when one class in a set of many failed to derive, causing the other derived
classes to be skipped entirely and resulting in other errors down the line.
The solution is to process each class in a data type's set of deriving clauses
individually, and engineer it so that failure to derive an individual class
within that set doesn't cancel out the others.

Test Plan: make test TEST="T10684 T12801"

Reviewers: austin, bgamari, simonpj

Reviewed By: simonpj

Subscribers: simonpj, rwbarton, thomie

GHC Trac Issues: #10684, #12801

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3771

Test Plan: If it builds, ship it

Reviewers: austin, bgamari

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3729

Although derived `Read`, `Show`, and `Generic` instances technically
don't //use// the record selectors of the data type for which an
instance is being derived, the derived code is affected by the
//presence// of record selectors. As a result, we should suppress
`-Wunused-binds` for those record selectors when deriving these classes.
This is accomplished by threading through more information from
`hasStockDeriving`.

Test Plan: make test TEST=T13919

Reviewers: austin, bgamari

Reviewed By: bgamari

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie

GHC Trac Issues: #13919

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3704

Summary:
This amounts to using `exactTyCoVarsOfType` instead of
`tyCoVarsOfType` in the right place. I also fixed a similar issue for
`-XDatatypeContexts` while I was in town (but couldn't be bothered to add a
test for it).

Test Plan: make test TEST=T13813

Reviewers: austin, bgamari, simonpj

Reviewed By: simonpj

Subscribers: simonpj, rwbarton, thomie

GHC Trac Issues: #13813

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3635

This patch fixes a bad bug in the specialiser, which showed up as
Trac #13429.  When specialising an imported DFun, the specialiser could
generate a recusive loop where none existed in the original program.

It's all rather tricky, and I've documented it at some length in
   Note [Avoiding loops]

We'd encoutered exactly this before (Trac #3591) but I had failed
to realise that the very same thing could happen for /imported/
DFuns.

I did quite a bit of refactoring.

The compiler seems to get a tiny bit faster on
   deriving/perf/T10858
but almost all the gain had occurred before now; this
patch just pushed it over the line.

The big change here is to fix an outright bug in flattening of Givens,
albeit one that is very hard to exhibit.  Suppose we have the constraint
    forall a. (a ~ F b) => ..., (forall c. ....(F b)...) ...

Then
 - we'll flatten the (F) b to a fsk, say  (F b ~ fsk1)
 - we'll rewrite the (F b) inside the inner implication to 'fsk1'
 - when we leave the outer constraint we are suppose to unflatten;
   but that fsk1 will still be there
 - if we re-simplify the entire outer implication, we'll re-flatten
   the Given (F b) to, say, (F b ~ fsk2)
Now we have two fsks standing for the same thing, and that is very
wrong.

Solution: make fsks behave more like fmvs:
 - A flatten-skolem is now a MetaTyVar, whose MetaInfo is FlatSkolTv
 - We "fill in" that meta-tyvar when leaving the implication
 - The old FlatSkol form of TcTyVarDetails is gone completely
 - We track the flatten-skolems for the current implication in
   a new field of InertSet, inert_fsks.

See Note [The flattening story] in TcFlatten.

In doing this I found various other things to fix:

* I removed the zonkSimples from TcFlatten.unflattenWanteds; it wasn't
  needed.   But I added one in TcSimplify.floatEqualities, which does
  the zonk precisely when it is needed.

* Trac #13674 showed up a case where we had
     - an insoluble Given,   e.g.  a ~ [a]
     - the same insoluble Wanted   a ~ [a]
  We don't use the Given to rewwrite the Wanted (obviously), but
  we therefore ended up reporting
      Can't deduce (a ~ [a]) from (a ~ [a])
  which is silly.

  Conclusion: when reporting errors, make the occurs check "win"
  See Note [Occurs check wins] in TcErrors

There's no obvious reason to derive the definition of `showList`,
manually inlining the default definition. Let's just use
the default definition in the usual manner.

Garbage collect a few unused `RdrNames` from `PrelNames`:
`showList`, `showList__`, and `/=`.

Reviewers: austin, bgamari

Reviewed By: bgamari

Subscribers: RyanGlScott, rwbarton, thomie

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3403

rwbarton authored 7 years ago and Ben Gamari committed 7 years ago

It was expensive, as the simplifier runs for many iterations,
and probably not very useful.

Test Plan: harbormaster

Reviewers: austin, bgamari, dfeuer

Reviewed By: dfeuer

Subscribers: dfeuer, thomie

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3391

Make `Functor`, `Foldable`, and `Traversable` take advantage
of the case where the type parameter is phantom. In this case,

* `fmap _ = coerce`
* `foldMap _ _ = mempty`
* `traverse _ x = pure (coerce x)`

For the sake of consistency and especially simplicity, make other types
with no data constructors behave the same:

* `fmap _ x = case x of`
* `foldMap _ _ = mempty`
* `traverse _ x = pure (case x of)`

Similarly, for `Generic`,

* `to x = case x of`
* `from x = case x of`

Give all derived methods for types without constructors appropriate
arities. For example,

```
    compare _ _ = error ...
```

rather than

```
    compare = error ...
```

Fixes #13117 and #13328

Reviewers: austin, bgamari, RyanGlScott

Reviewed By: RyanGlScott

Subscribers: ekmett, RyanGlScott, rwbarton, thomie

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3374

In error messages like this
    • Couldn't match type ‘c’ with ‘f0 (a -> b)’
      ‘c’ is a rigid type variable bound by
        the type signature for:
          f :: ((a -> b) -> b) -> forall c. c -> a

we need to take case both to actually show that 'forall c',
and to make sure that its name lines with the 'c' in the
error message.

This has been shaky for some time, and this commit puts it on solid
ground.  See TcRnTypes: Note [SigSkol SkolemInfo]

The main changes are

* SigSkol gets an extra field that records the way in which the
  type signature was skolemised.

* The type in SigSkol is now the /un/-skolemised version

* pprSkolemInfo uses the info to make the tidy type line up
  nicely

Lots of error message wibbles!

Simon Peyton Jones authored 8 years ago and David Feuer committed 8 years ago

When doing debug-printing it's really important that the free vars
of a type are printed with their uniques.  The IfaceTcTyVar thing
was a stab in that direction, but it only worked for TcTyVars, not
TyVars.

This patch does it properly, by keeping track of the free vars of the
type when translating Type -> IfaceType, and passing that down through
toIfaceTypeX.  Then when we find a variable, look in that set, and
translate it to IfaceFreeTyVar if so.  (I renamed IfaceTcTyVar to
IfaceFreeTyVar.)

Fiddly but not difficult.

Reviewers: austin, goldfire, bgamari

Reviewed By: bgamari

Subscribers: thomie

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3201