Generate Apply
instances with explicit kind arguments
#603
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After the changes in GHC#23515 are implemented, some
Apply
instances will fail to compile due to their left-hand sides being kind-generalized to something that is more polymorphic than what their right-hand sides will allow. For example, this commonly occurs when generatingApply
instances for lambda-lifted definitions or declarations whose kinds use visible dependent quantification.We avoid this issue by now generating
Apply
instances with explicit kind arguments (viaTypeApplications
), leveraging the fact that we know what the kinds are (most of the time) during defunctionalization. See the new section ofNote [Defunctionalization game plan], Wrinkle 2: Non-vanilla kinds
for the full details.Resolves the "Defunctionalizing declarations using visible dependent quantification" section of #601.