Re: Changes to the type checker with respect to UndecidableInstances

2015-01-06 Thread Mitsutoshi Aoe
Hi Simon, Thanks. So there was a bug in the type checker. Do you have a link to the ticket or commits which fixed the issue? Mitsutoshi 2014-12-30 19:56 GMT+09:00 Simon Peyton Jones simo...@microsoft.com: UndecidableInstances is supposed to be needed if GHC can’t prove that the instance

RE: Changes to the type checker with respect to UndecidableInstances

2014-12-30 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
UndecidableInstances is supposed to be needed if GHC can't prove that the instance declarations terminate. But here it can be sure they terminate. GHC 7.6.3 didn't realise this. I'll modify the user manual to be clearer on this point. Simon From: Glasgow-haskell-users