RE: GHC not able to detect impossible GADT pattern

2014-09-03 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
Tom Schrijvers; GHC Users List | Subject: Re: GHC not able to detect impossible GADT pattern | | Hi Simon, | | Thanks for the clarification, I attached the code to that ticket. Does | this mean improvements in this area are supposed to land in 7.10? | | Semi-relatedly, before attempting the cur

Re: GHC not able to detect impossible GADT pattern

2014-09-03 Thread Merijn Verstraaten
Hi Simon, Thanks for the clarification, I attached the code to that ticket. Does this mean improvements in this area are supposed to land in 7.10? Semi-relatedly, before attempting the current code (which at least compiles), I had a few other attempts and I was hoping you (or other readers) mig

RE: GHC not able to detect impossible GADT pattern

2014-09-02 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
I believe this is probably an instance of https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3927 There are numerous other similar tickets, about GHC's inadequate/misleading warnings for non-exhaustive patterns. A selection is #595, #5728, #3927, #5724, #5762, #4139, #6124, #7669, #322, #8016, #849