From: simonpj@microsoft.com <unknown>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 14:28:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Make record selectors into ordinary functions
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Make record selectors into ordinary functions

This biggish patch addresses Trac #2670.  The main effect is to make
record selectors into ordinary functions, whose unfoldings appear in
interface files, in contrast to their previous existence as magic
"implicit Ids".  This means that the usual machinery of optimisation,
analysis, and inlining applies to them, which was failing before when
the selector was somewhat complicated.  (Which it can be when
strictness annotations, unboxing annotations, and GADTs are involved.)

The change involves the following points

* Changes in Var.lhs to the representation of Var.  Now a LocalId can
  have an IdDetails as well as a GlobalId.  In particular, the
  information that an Id is a record selector is kept in the
  IdDetails.  While compiling the current module, the record selector
  *must* be a LocalId, so that it participates properly in compilation
  (free variables etc).

  This led me to change the (hidden) representation of Var, so that there
  is now only one constructor for Id, not two.

* The IdDetails is persisted into interface files, so that an
  importing module can see which Ids are records selectors.

* In TcTyClDecls, we generate the record-selector bindings in renamed,
  but not typechecked form.  In this way, we can get the typechecker
  to add all the types and so on, which is jolly helpful especially
  when GADTs or type families are involved.  Just like derived
  instance declarations.

  This is the big new chunk of 180 lines of code (much of which is
  commentary).  A call to the same function, mkAuxBinds, is needed in
  TcInstDcls for associated types.

* The typechecker therefore has to pin the correct IdDetails on to
  the record selector, when it typechecks it.  There was a neat way
  to do this, by adding a new sort of signature to HsBinds.Sig, namely
  IdSig.  This contains an Id (with the correct Name, Type, and IdDetails);
  the type checker uses it as the binder for the final binding.  This
  worked out rather easily.

* Record selectors are no longer "implicit ids", which entails changes to
     IfaceSyn.ifaceDeclSubBndrs
     HscTypes.implicitTyThings
     TidyPgm.getImplicitBinds
  (These three functions must agree.)

* MkId.mkRecordSelectorId is deleted entirely, some 300+ lines (incl
  comments) of very error prone code.  Happy days.

* A TyCon no longer contains the list of record selectors:
  algTcSelIds is gone

The renamer is unaffected, including the way that import and export of
record selectors is handled.

Other small things

* IfaceSyn.ifaceDeclSubBndrs had a fragile test for whether a data
  constructor had a wrapper.  I've replaced that with an explicit flag
  in the interface file. More robust I hope.

* I renamed isIdVar to isId, which touched a few otherwise-unrelated files.
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