unison/unison-src/transcripts/fix2350.md
2021-10-28 17:45:51 -04:00

27 lines
890 B
Markdown

This tests an issue where ability variables were being defaulted over
eagerly. In general, we want to avoid collecting up variables from the
use of definitions with types like:
T ->{e} U
Since this type works for every `e`, it is, 'pure;' and we might as
well have `e = {}`, since `{}` is a subrow of every other row.
However, if `e` isn't just a quantified variable, but one involved in
ongoing inference, it's undesirable to default it. Previously there
was a check to see if `e` occurred in the context. However, the wanted
abilities being collected aren't in the context, so types like:
T ->{S e} U ->{e} V
were a corner case. We would add `S e` to the wanted abilities, then
not realize that `e` shouldn't be defaulted.
```unison
unique ability Storage d g where
save.impl : a ->{Storage d g} ('{g} (d a))
save : a ->{Storage d g, g} (d a)
save a = !(save.impl a)
```