patch applied (ghc): Fix name-capture bug in rule matching
Simon Peyton Jones
simonpj at microsoft.com
Fri Nov 24 06:21:22 EST 2006
Fri Nov 24 03:11:58 PST 2006 simonpj at microsoft.com
* Fix name-capture bug in rule matching
The matching algorithm for RULES should respect alpha-conversion, but it
wasn't doing so. In particular, if the names of the template variables
clashed with a variable in scope at the call site, bad things could happen
(it showed up as a CoreLint failure when compiling nofib/real/parser)
This patch fixes the problem; see Note [Template binders]
Test is in simplCore/should_compile/spec002, but nofib -O2 in
real/parser, real/fulsom
M ./compiler/specialise/Rules.lhs -20 +29
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