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Thanks for the report! The server is back up, and I'll work on figuring this one out. The type you describe is recursive, not infinite (I think this is a standard distinction, not sure though). The point is that the type of DragCircle
can be written down with a finite amount of characters. This sort of thing should type-check, but I'll look into this more.
The mutually recursive functions you define (move
and rest
) actually have an infinite type:
move :: (Int,Int) -> Bool -> ( (Int,Int) -> Bool -> ( (Int,Int) -> Bool -> (...) ) )
I should be detecting this and throwing an error, but I guess not in this case!
Were you also seeing this behavior on functions that did not have infinite types?
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Were you also seeing this behavior on functions that did not have infinite types?
I don't think so. I'm pretty sure dragCircle
had an infinite type. Going by my definition above:
dragCircle :: (Form, (Number, Number) -> Bool -> (Form, (Number, Number) -> Bool -> (Form, (Number, Number) -> Bool -> ...)))
I used type
in the Haskell sense, meaning a type alias. Does Elm treat type
differently?
Also, note that if you change the offending code sample to:
move pos down = rest
rest pos down = (move, rest)
It doesn't crash, it just accepts the code (which Haskell rejects due to an occurs check failure).
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To clarify, I didn't use the type
keyword in the actual code. The type signatures I gave were the types I was expecting the code to have.
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Ok, makes sense. I was treating type
as data
in my mind. I'll work on this!
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I found a more innocent-looking piece of code that blows up the compiler:
f = foldr1 (:) [1..10]
The problem is that the Elm compiler does not seem to implement an occurs check. Namely, when unifying types, and you have a situation like this:
unify a [[a]]
This should be treated as a type error, since the substitution a ==> [[a]]
forms an infinite type.
In general, when unifying a type variable a with type T:
- If T is the type variable a, no need for a substitution.
- If T contains the type variable a (e.g.
[a]
,Maybe a
,a -> Int
), produce an "occurs check" error.
Typing Haskell in Haskell, section 6 describes unification and matching algorithms pretty nicely.
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I am pretty certain you are correct, and I believe this can be corrected pretty easily. I'll take a look now.
I'll take a read through the link you provided to see if I can clean things up / find other mistakes!
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Ok, fixed and pushed to master!
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Released!
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