brandonchinn178 / brandonchinn178/ghc-string-interpolation-prototypes
ambiguous type using implicit-builder
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Description
I am trying to convert
``` haskell
unsafeUnlock :: Show r => Locker r p -> p
unsafeUnlock (Locker rs x) = D.traceShow ("Unsafe UNLOCK requiring " <> show rs) x
```
but a straight forward
``` haskell
unsafeUnlock (Locker rs x) = D.traceShow s"Unsafe UNLOCK requiring ${show rs}" x
```
does not work. Indeed `traceShow` accepts anything showable and doesn't know that `s"..."` is a String.
I have to do force the type with
``` haskell
unsafeUnlock (Locker rs x) = D.traceShow (s"Unsafe UNLOCK requiring ${show rs}" :: String) x
```
which is not ideal. I would expect the expanded code to add the `:: String` but I understand this would not work with `OverloadedStrings`, unless we got `s` for `String`, `t` for `Text` etc ... (or `s@String`).
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No file or test is named; start by locating the implicit-builder expansion and reproducing the Locker/traceShow example. Done means the interpolation behavior resolves the ambiguous result type without requiring an explicit :: String annotation, with the OverloadedStrings trade-off addressed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- haskell
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- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
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- 5/5
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