Add the function TypeRep.pprTypeApp, and use it

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

diff --git a/compiler/types/Type.lhs b/compiler/types/Type.lhs
index 147f546..fd81795 100644 (file)
--- a/compiler/types/Type.lhs
+++ b/compiler/types/Type.lhs
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ module Type (
        substPred, substTyVar, substTyVars, substTyVarBndr, deShadowTy, lookupTyVar,
 
        -- Pretty-printing
-       pprType, pprParendType, pprTyThingCategory, pprForAll,
+       pprType, pprParendType, pprTypeApp, pprTyThingCategory, pprForAll,
        pprPred, pprTheta, pprThetaArrow, pprClassPred, pprKind, pprParendKind
     ) where
 
@@ -611,11 +611,14 @@ tyConOrigHead tycon = case tyConFamInst_maybe tycon of
                        Just famInst -> famInst
 
 -- Pretty prints a tycon, using the family instance in case of a
--- representation tycon.
-pprSourceTyCon tycon | Just (repTyCon, tys) <- tyConFamInst_maybe tycon =
-  ppr $ repTyCon `TyConApp` tys               -- can't be FunTyCon
-                     | otherwise                                        =
-  ppr tycon
+-- representation tycon.  For example
+--     e.g.  data T [a] = ...
+-- In that case we want to print `T [a]', where T is the family TyCon
+pprSourceTyCon tycon 
+  | Just (repTyCon, tys) <- tyConFamInst_maybe tycon
+  = ppr $ repTyCon `TyConApp` tys             -- can't be FunTyCon
+  | otherwise
+  = ppr tycon
 \end{code}