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Context reduction is too broad in coalton expressions. #1348

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YarinHeffes opened this issue Jan 9, 2025 · 0 comments
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Context reduction is too broad in coalton expressions. #1348

YarinHeffes opened this issue Jan 9, 2025 · 0 comments

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The following block

 (coalton (progn (+ 2 "hello")))

gives the following error.

error: Unable to codegen
  --> <macroexpansion>:2:1
   |
 2 |     (PROGN
   |  ___^
   | | __^
 3 | ||    (+ 2 "hello")))
   | ||_________________^ Add a type assertion with THE to resolve ambiguity
   | |__________________^ expression has type ∀. (NUM STRING) => STRING with unresolved constraint (NUM STRING)

but, the following block

(coalton-toplevel (define x (progn (+ 2 "hello"))))

gives the following error.

error: Unknown instance
  --> <macroexpansion>:4:9
   |
 4 |        (+ 2 "hello"))))
   |           ^ Unknown instance NUM STRING

We want the same error for the case of coalton-toplevel to appear for coalton. The culprit seems to be the way we handle context reduction in the function expression-entry-point in /src/entry.lisp.

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