Friends
This is a message for people who use RULES, to ask your opinion. Have a look at
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2600
and add your comments if you want. The intro to the ticket appears below, so
you can get an idea of whether you are interested.
Simon
Roman writes: I found an example I came across while working on the recycling
paper and which I subsequently forgot about. Suppose we have:
{-# LANGUAGE Rank2Types #-}
module T where
class T t where
to :: [a] -> t a
from :: t a -> [a]
tmap :: (a -> a) -> t a -> t a
{-# RULES
"myrule" forall f x.
from (tmap f (to x)) = map f (from (to x))
#-}
Alas, this fails with:
Ambiguous type variable `t' in the constraint:
`T t' arising from a use of `to' at T.hs:12:40-43
Probable fix: add a type signature that fixes these type variable(s)
Of course, I'd like the t on the rhs to be the same as on the lhs but I don't
see how to tell this to GHC. Is it actually possible? The only solution I've
found was to add a dummy argument to 'to':
to' :: t a -> [a] -> t a
to = to' undefined
{-# RULES
"myrule" forall f t x.
from (tmap f (to' t x)) = map f (from (to' t x))
#-}
That's ugly, of course. Am I missing something or is this just impossible to do
with the current system?
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