New restrictions to open type families

Akio Takano tkn.akio at gmail.com
Fri Aug 23 15:14:00 CEST 2013


I created a ticket and attached the files:

http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8162

-- Akio



On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones
<simonpj at microsoft.com>wrote:

>  Akio****
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> Thanks that’s amazing!  I wonder if it’d be worth adding it, with
> commentary, (and attaching the files) as a Trac ticket?  I know its already
> fixed, but it’s great to be able to say “to see an example of why this is
> vital, see Trac #8324”, whereas email archives are more ephemeral somehow.
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> Simon****
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> *From:* Glasgow-haskell-users [mailto:
> glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org] *On Behalf Of *Akio Takano
> *Sent:* 23 August 2013 11:35
> *To:* glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org; Richard Eisenberg
> *Subject:* Fwd: New restrictions to open type families****
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> (I forgot to send to the list, trying again)****
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> Thank you very much for your detailed explanation!****
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> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Richard Eisenberg <eir at cis.upenn.edu>
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>   This is a good question. Happily, there are at least two decent answers.
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> 1) We're not sure that this problem cannot cause a segfault… it's just
> that we've been unable to produce one when trying. Perhaps we haven't tried
> hard enough.****
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> I successfully constructed such an example.
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> https://github.com/takano-akio/type-family-overlap
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> - Akio****
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