Warning suppression pragmas

[Ben Gamari]

Эдгар Жаворонков <edzhavoronkov at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello devs!
>
> I am trying to implement some kind of local warnings suppresion and i need
> some help.
>
> I want to use a pragma to mark functions so compiler won't throw warnings
> from them. I defined my pragma in lexer, parser and added type signature in
> HsBinds.hs. And i am stuck. I don't know what to do. What should i consider
> doing further?
>
I think it would be helpful to focus on further elaborating the
specification before we move into the implementation. There are still a
number of open questions about the design that the wiki page doesn't yet
address.

For instance, you should explicitly specify,

 * What are the identifiers that appear after the `SUPPRESS` token?

 * What exactly does the pragma apply to? For instance, if I have a case
   like,

       hello :: Int -> Int
       {-# SUPPRESS some-warning #-}
       helloAgain :: Type -> AnotherType
       hello = (+1)
       helloAgain = error "42"

   or even just
       hello = (+1)
       {-# SUPPRESS another-warning #-}
       helloAgain = error "oops"

   What do you expect to happen? The behavior of the pragma in both of
   these cases should be unambiguously stated in the specification.

 * An concrete use-case motivating the change (preferably with examples
   showing how the proposed syntax would address the motivation)

I know this sounds repetitive, but the act of writing down a proposal 
will help you immensely when you do move on to implementing your ideas.

Thanks for your persistence.

Cheers,

- Ben

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