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-rw-r--r--pretyping/unification.ml10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pretyping/unification.ml b/pretyping/unification.ml
index 6f7e2ba6f1..87025b4d22 100644
--- a/pretyping/unification.ml
+++ b/pretyping/unification.ml
@@ -827,6 +827,14 @@ let order_metas metas =
meta :: order latemetas metas
in order [] metas
+(* Give priority to the less-dependent evars so that instances found
+ by matching are preferred over instances found by unification of
+ types of other instances; this gives instances more faithful to
+ what the user sees *)
+
+let order_evars evars =
+ Sort.list (fun (env1,(evk1,_),rhs1) (env2,(evk2,_),rhs2) -> evk1 < evk2) evars
+
(* Solve an equation ?n[x1=u1..xn=un] = t where ?n is an evar *)
let solve_simple_evar_eqn ts env evd ev rhs =
@@ -935,7 +943,7 @@ let w_merge env with_types flags (evd,metas,evars) =
else Evd.define sp (Evarutil.nf_evar evd''' c) evd''' in
(* merge constraints *)
- w_merge_rec evd (order_metas metas) evars []
+ w_merge_rec evd (order_metas metas) (order_evars evars) []
let w_unify_meta_types env ?(flags=default_unify_flags) evd =
let metas,evd = retract_coercible_metas evd in