BSD-3-Clause licensed by Sandy Maguire
Maintained by [email protected]
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polysemy-plugin

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Dedication

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

Richard Feynman

Overview

A typechecker plugin that can disambiguate “obvious” uses of effects in polysemy.

Example

Consider the following program:

foo :: Member (State Int) r => Sem r ()
foo = put 10

What does this program do? Any human will tell you that it changes the state of the Int to 10, which is clearly what’s meant.

Unfortunately, polysemy can’t work this out on its own. Its reasoning is “maybe you wanted to change some other State effect which is also a Num, but you just forgot to add a Member constraint for it.”

This is obviously insane, but it’s the way the cookie crumbles. polysemy-plugin is a typechecker plugin which will disambiguate the above program (and others) so the compiler will do what you want.

Usage

Add the following line to your package configuration:

ghc-options: -fplugin=Polysemy.Plugin

Limitations

The polysemy-plugin will only disambiguate effects if there is exactly one relevant constraint in scope. For example, it will not disambiguate the following program:

bar :: Members '[ State Int
                , State Double
                ] r => Sem r ()
bar = put 10

because it is now unclear whether you’re attempting to set the Int or the Double. Instead, you can manually write a type application in this case.

bar :: Members '[ State Int
                , State Double
                ] r => Sem r ()
bar = put @Int 10

Acknowledgments

This plugin is copied almost verbatim from simple-effects.

Changes

Changelog for polysemy-plugin

Unreleased

0.4.1.1 (2021-11-23)

  • Fixed a regression introduced in 0.4.1.0 where polymorphic uses of interpreters could confuse the plugin.

0.4.1.0 (2021-10-22)

  • The plugin can now use instances in scope to help solve ambiguous type variables.

0.4.0.0 (2021-07-12)

  • Support GHC 9.0.1

0.3.0.0 (2021-03-30)

Breaking Changes

  • Dropped support for GHC 8.4

0.2.5.2 (2020-11-01)

  • Fixed crashes stemming from unused optimization passes (#382)

0.2.5.1 (2020-09-15)

  • The plugin now works on GHC 8.10 (thanks to @googleson78)

0.2.5.0 (2020-02-14)

  • Updated the lower bounds to polysemy-1.3.0.0 because of changes to polysemy internals
  • Updated the test suite to test against polysemy-1.3.0.0.

0.2.4.0 (2019-10-29)

  • The plugin now works on GHC 8.8.1 (thanks to @googleson78 and @sevanspowell)
  • Improved error messages for when you forgot to include polysemy itself

0.2.3.0 (2019-09-04)

  • The plugin will now choose between given effects based on the ability to unify them. This makes it possible for disambiguation to kick in even when using multiple instances of the same effect with different type variables, as long as type annotations/applications are used to target a specific instance.
  • Updated the test suite to test against polysemy-1.2.0.0.

0.2.2.0 (2019-07-04)

  • The plugin will now prevent some false-positives in polysemy’s error messages
  • Updated the lower bounds to polysemy-0.6.0.0

0.2.1.1 (2019-06-26)

  • Updated the test suite to test against polysemy-0.5.0.0

0.2.1.0 (2019-06-14)

  • Greatly improved the plugin’s ability to unify polymorphic types when running interpreters.

0.2.0.3 (2019-06-13)

  • Fixed a bug where the plugin could (incorrectly) loop indefinitely attempting to solve some constraints.
  • Changed the lower-bound of inspection-testing to allow Cabal users to successfully run the test-suite.

0.2.0.2 (2019-06-09)

  • Fixed a bug where the plugin wouldn’t attempt to unify effects recursively
  • Updated the test suite to test against polysemy-0.3

0.2.0.1 (2019-05-28)

  • Fixed a bug where the plugin would get confused in the context of legitimate type errors

0.2.0.0 (2019-05-23)

  • Fixed a serious bug where the changes from 0.1.0.1 broke most real-world usages of polysemy
  • The plugin will now automatically perform the transformation in polysemy’s inlineRecursiveCalls when run with -O

0.1.0.1 (2019-05-18)

  • Added some explicit bounds for cabal
  • Fixed a bug where effects that were too polymorphic would silently be accepted

0.1.0.0 (2019-04-27)

  • Initial release

Unreleased changes

  • Added mapError