; return () }
| otherwise
= do { -- Figure out what default types to use
- mb_defaults <- getDefaultTys
- ; default_tys <- case mb_defaults of
- Just tys -> return tys
- Nothing -> -- No use-supplied default;
- -- use [Integer, Double]
- do { integer_ty <- tcMetaTy integerTyConName
- ; checkWiredInTyCon doubleTyCon
- ; string_ty <- tcMetaTy stringTyConName
- ; if ovl_strings -- Add String if -foverloaded-strings
- then return [integer_ty,doubleTy,string_ty]
- else return [integer_ty,doubleTy] }
+ ; default_tys <- getDefaultTys extended_defaulting ovl_strings
; traceTc (text "disambigutate" <+> vcat [ppr unaries, ppr bad_tvs, ppr defaultable_groups])
; mapM_ (disambigGroup default_tys) defaultable_groups }
-- After this we can't fail
; warnDefault dicts default_ty
; unifyType default_ty (mkTyVarTy tyvar) }
+
+
+getDefaultTys :: Bool -> Bool -> TcM [Type]
+getDefaultTys extended_deflts ovl_strings
+ = do { mb_defaults <- getDeclaredDefaultTys
+ ; case mb_defaults of {
+ Just tys -> return tys ; -- User-supplied defaults
+ Nothing -> do
+
+ -- No use-supplied default
+ -- Use [Integer, Double], plus modifications
+ { integer_ty <- tcMetaTy integerTyConName
+ ; checkWiredInTyCon doubleTyCon
+ ; string_ty <- tcMetaTy stringTyConName
+ ; return (opt_deflt extended_deflts unitTy
+ -- Note [Default unitTy]
+ ++
+ [integer_ty,doubleTy]
+ ++
+ opt_deflt ovl_strings string_ty) } } }
+ where
+ opt_deflt True ty = [ty]
+ opt_deflt False ty = []
\end{code}
+Note [Default unitTy]
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+In interative mode (or with -fextended-default-rules) we add () as the first type we
+try when defaulting. This has very little real impact, except in the following case.
+Consider:
+ Text.Printf.printf "hello"
+This has type (forall a. IO a); it prints "hello", and returns 'undefined'. We don't
+want the GHCi repl loop to try to print that 'undefined'. The neatest thing is to
+default the 'a' to (), rather than to Integer (which is what would otherwise happen;
+and then GHCi doesn't attempt to print the (). So in interactive mode, we add
+() to the list of defaulting types. See Trac #1200.
+
Note [Avoiding spurious errors]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When doing the unification for defaulting, we check for skolem