[See Appendix~E in the Haskell~1.2 report.] This code here deals w/
all those.
+Note [Newtype deriving superclasses]
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The 'tys' here come from the partial application
+in the deriving clause. The last arg is the new
+instance type.
+
+We must pass the superclasses; the newtype might be an instance
+of them in a different way than the representation type
+E.g. newtype Foo a = Foo a deriving( Show, Num, Eq )
+Then the Show instance is not done via isomorphism; it shows
+ Foo 3 as "Foo 3"
+The Num instance is derived via isomorphism, but the Show superclass
+dictionary must the Show instance for Foo, *not* the Show dictionary
+gotten from the Num dictionary. So we must build a whole new dictionary
+not just use the Num one. The instance we want is something like:
+ instance (Num a, Show (Foo a), Eq (Foo a)) => Num (Foo a) where
+ (+) = ((+)@a)
+ ...etc...
+There may be a coercion needed which we get from the tycon for the newtype
+when the dict is constructed in TcInstDcls.tcInstDecl2
+
+
\begin{code}
makeDerivEqns :: OverlapFlag
-> [LTyClDecl Name]
traceTc (text "newtype deriving:" <+> ppr tycon <+> ppr rep_tys) `thenM_`
new_dfun_name clas tycon `thenM` \ dfun_name ->
returnM (Nothing, Just (InstInfo { iSpec = mk_inst_spec dfun_name,
- iBinds = NewTypeDerived (newTyConCo tycon) rep_tys }))
+ iBinds = NewTypeDerived tycon rep_tys }))
| std_class gla_exts clas
= mk_eqn_help gla_exts DataType tycon deriv_tvs clas tys -- Go via bale-out route
rep_pred = mkClassPred clas rep_tys
-- rep_pred is the representation dictionary, from where
-- we are gong to get all the methods for the newtype dictionary
+ -- here we are figuring out what superclass dictionaries to use
+ -- see Note [Newtype deriving superclasses] above
inst_tys = (tys ++ [mkTyConApp tycon (mkTyVarTys tyvars_to_keep)])
- -- The 'tys' here come from the partial application
- -- in the deriving clause. The last arg is the new
- -- instance type.
-
- -- We must pass the superclasses; the newtype might be an instance
- -- of them in a different way than the representation type
- -- E.g. newtype Foo a = Foo a deriving( Show, Num, Eq )
- -- Then the Show instance is not done via isomorphism; it shows
- -- Foo 3 as "Foo 3"
- -- The Num instance is derived via isomorphism, but the Show superclass
- -- dictionary must the Show instance for Foo, *not* the Show dictionary
- -- gotten from the Num dictionary. So we must build a whole new dictionary
- -- not just use the Num one. The instance we want is something like:
- -- instance (Num a, Show (Foo a), Eq (Foo a)) => Num (Foo a) where
- -- (+) = ((+)@a)
- -- ...etc...
- -- There's no 'corece' needed because after the type checker newtypes
- -- are transparent.
+
sc_theta = substTheta (zipOpenTvSubst clas_tyvars inst_tys)
(classSCTheta clas)
-- If there are no tyvars, there's no need
-- to abstract over the dictionaries we need
dict_tvs = deriv_tvs ++ tc_tvs
- dict_args | null dict_tvs = []
+ dict_args -- | null dict_tvs = []
| otherwise = rep_pred : sc_theta
-- Finally! Here's where we build the dictionary Id