Special treatment of family and role in the parser

[Jan Stolarek]

Richard, I still don't fully understand special treatment of 'role' and 'family' in the parser I 
asked about recently on Skype. Say I have:

foo :: role -> role
foo role = role

This results in parse error of type signature, regardless of enabling or 
disabling -XRoleAnnotations. Using `role` as a variable name (not type variable) is fine though. 
This is a consequence of explicitly listing 'role' lexeme in the varid production in the parser, 
but not in tyvarid production. But if I add 'role' to tyvarid production (or, even better, push 
it to special_id production used both by varid and tyvarid) everything works perfectly, I can use 
`role` both as variable and type variable name. Role annotations also work. The only downside is 
a small increase in number of shift/reduce conflicts. If I treat 'family' in the same way (ie. 
add it to tyvarid production) the increase in shift/reduce conflicts really becomes significant: 
from 37 to 129. Is this the only reason we don't do it? As you can guess this question is related 
to open kinds work: I need to add 'kind' lexeme to special_id to make sure it is accepted as a 
variable and type variable name.

Janek

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Politechnika Łódzka
Lodz University of Technology

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