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tcDefaults :: [DefaultDecl Name]
- -> TcM [Type] -- defaulting types to heave
+ -> TcM [Type] -- Defaulting types to heave
-- into Tc monad for later use
-- in Disambig.
-tcDefaults [] = returnM defaultDefaultTys
+tcDefaults []
+ = getDefaultTys -- No default declaration, so get the
+ -- default types from the envt;
+ -- i.e. use the curent ones
+ -- (the caller will put them back there)
+ -- It's important not to return defaultDefaultTys here (which
+ -- we used to do) because in a TH program, tcDefaults [] is called
+ -- repeatedly, once for each group of declarations between top-level
+ -- splices. We don't want to carefully set the default types in
+ -- one group, only for the next group to ignore them and install
+ -- defaultDefaultTys
tcDefaults [DefaultDecl [] locn]
- = returnM [] -- no defaults
+ = returnM [] -- Default declaration specifying no types
tcDefaults [DefaultDecl mono_tys locn]
= tcLookupGlobal_maybe numClassName `thenM` \ maybe_num ->