- -- Remove any shadowed bindings from the type_env;
- -- they are inaccessible but might, I suppose, cause
- -- a space leak if we leave them there
+{- ---------------------------------------------
+ At one stage I removed any shadowed bindings from the type_env;
+ they are inaccessible but might, I suppose, cause a space leak if we leave them there.
+ However, with Template Haskell they aren't necessarily inaccessible. Consider this
+ GHCi session
+ Prelude> let f n = n * 2 :: Int
+ Prelude> fName <- runQ [| f |]
+ Prelude> $(return $ AppE fName (LitE (IntegerL 7)))
+ 14
+ Prelude> let f n = n * 3 :: Int
+ Prelude> $(return $ AppE fName (LitE (IntegerL 7)))
+ In the last line we use 'fName', which resolves to the *first* 'f'
+ in scope. If we delete it from the type env, GHCi crashes because
+ it doesn't expect that.
+
+ Hence this code is commented out
+