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Escaped existential type #7222

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vicuna opened this issue Apr 11, 2016 · 2 comments
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Escaped existential type #7222

vicuna opened this issue Apr 11, 2016 · 2 comments
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vicuna commented Apr 11, 2016

Original bug ID: 7222
Reporter: @Octachron
Assigned to: @garrigue
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2017-09-24T15:32:19Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: major
Version: 4.02.3
Target version: 4.03.0+dev / +beta1
Fixed in version: 4.03.0+dev / +beta1
Category: typing
Monitored by: @gasche @hcarty

Bug description

The following code leads to a toplevel function with existential type within its type:
"
type +'a n = private int
type nil = private Nil_type
type (,) elt =
| Elt_fine: 'nat n -> ('l,'nat * 'l) elt
| Elt: 'nat n -> ('l,'nat -> 'l) elt
type _ t = Nil : nil t | Cons : ('x, 'fx) elt * 'x t -> 'fx t

let undetected: ('a -> 'b -> nil) t -> 'a n -> 'b n -> unit = fun sh i j ->
let Cons(Elt dim, _) = sh in ()
"
The type inferred for "undetected" is "('a -> $'b -> nil) t -> 'a n -> $'b n -> unit ".

As far as I understand, the existential type "$'b" should never appear in the type of a toplevel function and this is a typing error.

Moreover, slightly altering the code to

"
let detected: ('a * 'b * nil) t -> 'a n -> 'b n -> unit = fun sh i j ->
let Cons(Elt_fine dim, _) = sh in ()
"
triggers a compiler error about the existential type leaving its scope.
The same problem persists from version 4.02.3 to the beta2 version of 4.03.0.

As a supplementary information, calling the full version of this function accross module boundary triggered an internal assertion failure at (File "typing/typecore.ml", line 1903, characters 65-71) within the 4.02.3 compiler.
Unfortunately, I could not try the original code with the 4.03 beta compilers.

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vicuna commented Apr 12, 2016

Comment author: @Octachron

Correction, the second example also exhibits leaked existential type once its type is corrected to
"
let (also_not_)detected: ('a * ('b * nil)) t -> 'a n -> 'b n -> unit
= fun sh i j -> let Cons(Elt_fine dim, _) = sh in ()
(val detected: ('a * ($'b * nil)) t -> 'a n -> $'b n -> unit)
"

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vicuna commented Apr 15, 2016

Comment author: @garrigue

Fixed in 4.03 and trunk by commits f61df10 and 390d0fa.

Error messages could be improved...

@vicuna vicuna closed this as completed Sep 24, 2017
@vicuna vicuna added the typing label Mar 14, 2019
@vicuna vicuna added this to the 4.03.0 milestone Mar 14, 2019
@vicuna vicuna added the bug label Mar 20, 2019
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