[project @ 2001-06-14 16:41:46 by rrt]

[ghc-hetmet.git] / ghc / compiler / types / InstEnv.lhs

diff --git a/ghc/compiler/types/InstEnv.lhs b/ghc/compiler/types/InstEnv.lhs
index 0586453..a3bb8d4 100644 (file)
--- a/ghc/compiler/types/InstEnv.lhs
+++ b/ghc/compiler/types/InstEnv.lhs
@@ -387,6 +387,21 @@ determine the second.  In general, given the same class decl, and given
 
 Then the criterion is: if U=unify(s1,t1) then U(s2) = U(t2).
 
+Matters are a little more complicated if there are free variables in
+the s2/t2.  
+
+       class D a b c | a -> b
+       instance D a b => D [(a,a)] [b] Int
+       instance D a b => D [a]     [b] Bool
+
+The instance decls don't overlap, because the third parameter keeps
+them separate.  But we want to make sure that given any constraint
+       D s1 s2 s3
+if s1 matches 
+
+
+
+
 \begin{code}
 badFunDeps :: ClsInstEnv -> Class
           -> TyVarSet -> [Type]        -- Proposed new instance type