Note [Sym and ForAllCo]

GHC/Core/TyCo/Subst.hs:528 compiler

In OptCoercion, we try to push "sym" out to the leaves of a coercion. But,
how do we push sym into a ForAllCo? It's a little ugly.

Ignoring visibility, here is the typing rule
(see Note [ForAllCo] in GHC.Core.TyCo.Rep).

h : k1 ~# k2
(tv : k1) |- g : ty1 ~# ty2

ForAllCo tv h g : (ForAllTy (tv : k1) ty1) ~#
                  (ForAllTy (tv : k2) (ty2[tv |-> tv |> sym h]))

Here is what we want:

ForAllCo tv h' g' : (ForAllTy (tv : k2) (ty2[tv |-> tv |> sym h])) ~#
                    (ForAllTy (tv : k1) ty1)


Because the kinds of the type variables to the right of the colon are the kinds
coerced by h', we know (h' : k2 ~# k1). Thus, (h' = sym h).

Now, we can rewrite ty1 to be (ty1[tv |-> tv |> sym h' |> h']). We thus want

ForAllCo tv h' g' :
  (ForAllTy (tv : k2) (ty2[tv |-> tv |> h'])) ~#
  (ForAllTy (tv : k1) (ty1[tv |-> tv |> h'][tv |-> tv |> sym h']))

We thus see that we want

g' : ty2[tv |-> tv |> h'] ~# ty1[tv |-> tv |> h']

and thus g' = sym (g[tv |-> tv |> h']).

Putting it all together, we get this:

sym (ForAllCo tv h g)
==>
ForAllCo tv (sym h) (sym g[tv |-> tv |> sym h])

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