<div><div dir="auto" style="line-break:after-white-space">Exactly -- sorry, I should have picked this up at the start — my bad.</div><div dir="auto" style="line-break:after-white-space"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="line-break:after-white-space">we are exploring non disruptive options in the thread thread on the PR</div></div><div><div dir="auto" style="line-break:after-white-space"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div style="direction:ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 12 Sep 2023, at 08:26, Simon Marlow <<a href="mailto:marlowsd@gmail.com" target="_blank">marlowsd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Looks to me like it would be a breaking change even when the extension is not enabled, because the grammar is not conditional on extensions. The usual trick of using keywords to enable extensions (because keywords can be conditionally enabled in the lexer) doesn't work in this case.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Simon<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 10 Sept 2023 at 05:17, Moritz Angermann <<a href="mailto:moritz.angermann@gmail.com" target="_blank">moritz.angermann@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto">Joachim,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My understand if the cost and drawbacks section[1], is that existing code breaks even without explicitly enabling the extension. If this is indeed not the case it should be called our explicitly in the section that breakage requires the extension to be enabled. Also an explanation why the patsyn test cases fail. Do we automatically enable that extension in the testsuite? Where does the regression come from?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Maybe I’m misreading that section and it just needs to be clarified that there is _no breakage without **explixitly** enabling the extension_ to existing code. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers,</div><div dir="auto"> Moritz</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">[1]: <div><a href="https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/eb4b67c29282520b2c5c6a49c3047dbecb15dde1/proposals/0522-or-patterns.rst#costs-and-drawbacks" target="_blank">https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/eb4b67c29282520b2c5c6a49c3047dbecb15dde1/proposals/0522-or-patterns.rst#costs-and-drawbacks</a></div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 at 12:04 PM, Joachim Breitner <<a href="mailto:mail@joachim-breitner.de" target="_blank">mail@joachim-breitner.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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<span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:sans-serif">Hi,</span> <br> <br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:sans-serif">since this is guarded by an extension that doesn't even exist yet, no code is broken, is there?</span> <br> <br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:sans-serif">I also don't expect this to be enabled in the future without coinciding with an intentional action by the developers - enabling this extension or switching to a future language edition that has this enabled by default (should that ever exist). Is it not sufficient if they are _then_ bothered with this change?</span> <br> <br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:sans-serif">(That said, we could say that a unparenthized type annotation on a pattern synonym is simply confusing, and thus use a warning to nudge the developers to add the parentheses now.)</span> <br> <br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:sans-serif">So not opposed to an early warning, I just don't think it's strictly necessary for this change.</span> <br> <br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:sans-serif">Cheers,</span> <br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:sans-serif">Joachim </span> <br> <br>
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