Re: ghc 6.7 and GADT pattern-matching

2007-08-22 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:57:39PM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > The issue is different here. You are *lazily* matching the pattern, so it'd > be unsound in general to accept this. Same thing if you said > fstTy ~(a :-> b) = a > Now in this case the RHS is strict in 'a' so it

Re: ghc 6.7 and GADT pattern-matching

2007-08-22 Thread Conal Elliott
alf Of *Conal Elliott > *Sent:* 22 August 2007 23:34 > *To:* Simon Peyton-Jones > *Cc:* cvs-ghc@haskell.org > *Subject:* Re: ghc 6.7 and GADT pattern-matching > > > > How about this one (relative to same Ty def)? > > fstTy :: Ty (a -> b) -> Ty a > fstTy

RE: ghc 6.7 and GADT pattern-matching

2007-08-22 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
ng to do with rigidity. The error message is bad though S From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Conal Elliott Sent: 22 August 2007 23:34 To: Simon Peyton-Jones Cc: cvs-ghc@haskell.org Subject: Re: ghc 6.7 and GADT pattern-matching How about this one (relative to same

Re: ghc 6.7 and GADT pattern-matching

2007-08-22 Thread Conal Elliott
, the solution is always "add a type signature", though in this > case you could also escape with "omit a $". > > > > Simon > > > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Conal Elliott > *Sent:* 22 August 2007 06:15 >

RE: ghc 6.7 and GADT pattern-matching

2007-08-22 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
ion is always "add a type signature", though in this case you could also escape with "omit a $". Simon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Conal Elliott Sent: 22 August 2007 06:15 To: cvs-ghc@haskell.org Subject: ghc 6.7 and GADT pattern-matching In

Re: ghc 6.7 and GADT pattern-matching

2007-08-21 Thread Conal Elliott
No big deal after all. Replacing the ($) uses with regular parenthesized application allows compilation to go through. - Conal On 8/21/07, Conal Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In going from ghc-6.6 to ghc-6.7, I've lost some GADT pattern matching > that I'd really like to have back. The

ghc 6.7 and GADT pattern-matching

2007-08-21 Thread Conal Elliott
In going from ghc-6.6 to ghc-6.7, I've lost some GADT pattern matching that I'd really like to have back. The message: c:/conal/Haskell/Eros/src/gadt-example.hs:23:32: GADT pattern match in non-rigid context for `:*' Tell GHC HQ if you'd like this to unify the context In the patt