{-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-} {-# LANGUAGE AllowAmbiguousTypes #-} -- only necessary in 7.10 {-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts #-} -- necessary for showFromF' example {-# OPTIONS_GHC -fno-warn-redundant-constraints #-} module T10226 where type family F a type family FInv a -- This definition is accepted in 7.8 without anything extra, but requires -- AllowAmbiguousTypes in 7.10 (this, by itself, is not a problem): showFromF :: (Show a, FInv (F a) ~ a) => F a -> String showFromF fa = undefined -- Consider what happens when we attempt to call `showFromF` at some type b. -- In order to check that this is valid, we have to find an a such that -- -- > b ~ F a /\ Show a /\ FInv (F a) ~ a -- -- Introducing an intermediate variable `x` for the result of `F a` gives us -- -- > b ~ F a /\ Show a /\ FInv x ~ a /\ F a ~ x -- -- Simplifying -- -- > b ~ x /\ Show a /\ FInv x ~ a /\ F a ~ x -- -- Set x := b -- -- > Show a /\ FInv b ~ a /\ F a ~ b -- -- Set a := FInv b -- -- > Show (FInv b) /\ FInv b ~ FInv b /\ F (FInv b) ~ b -- -- Simplifying -- -- > Show (FInv b) /\ F (FInv b) ~ b -- -- Indeed, we can give this definition in 7.8, but not in 7.10: showFromF' :: (Show (FInv b), F (FInv b) ~ b) => b -> String showFromF' = showFromF {------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In 7.10 the definition of showFromF' is not accepted, but it gets stranger. In 7.10 we cannot _call_ showFromF at all, even at a concrete type. Below we try to call it at type b ~ Int. It would need to show > Show (FInv Int) /\ F (FInt Int) ~ Int all of which should easily get resolved, but somehow don't. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------} type instance F Int = Int type instance FInv Int = Int test :: String test = showFromF (0 :: Int)