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@@ -6,27 +6,7 @@ For example, a RevertableProperty is sometimes used where only a regular
Property is accepted. In this case, the error could suggest that the user
apply `setupRevertableProperty` to extract the setup side of the RevertableProperty.
-And, when a Property HasInfo is provided to ensureProperty, propellor could
-explain, in the compile error, why it can't let the user do that.
-
-Custom errors need a type class to be used. So, could do something like this:
-
- class NeedsProperty a where
- withProperty :: (Property metatype -> b) -> b
-
- instance NeedsProperty (Property metatype) where withProperty = id
-
- instance TypeError (Text "Use setupRevertableProperty ...")
- => NeedsProperty RevertableProperty where
- withProperty = error "unreachable"
-
-(While propellor needs to be buildable with older versions of ghc,
-the `instance TypeError` can just be wrapped in an ifdef to make it only be
-used by the new ghc.)
-
-> The new type-errors library builds a lot of stuff on top of this.
-> Its ability to detect "stuckness" seems like it may be able to catch
-> the very long type errors that we sometimes see when using propellor, and
-> whittle them down to a more useful error. --[[Joey]]
+> The `custom-error-types` branch has this implemented quite nicely.
+> Unfortunately, it ran into a ghc bug <https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/16894>
[[!tag user/joey]]