Special treatment of family and role in the parser

[Jan Stolarek]

Yes, I have seen the note, but thank you nevertheless :-)

Janek

Dnia czwartek, 21 stycznia 2016, Alan & Kim Zimmerman napisał:
> At the risk of stating the obvious, have you looked at
> https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/compiler/parser/Parser.y#L2993?
>
> Alan
>
> On 21 Jan 2016 4:50 PM, "Jan Stolarek" <jan.stolarek at p.lodz.pl> wrote:
> > I'll take a look at the parser, see if we can do better.
> >
> > > I also suggest that keywords introduced by GHC extensions should be
> >
> > lexed as keywords regardless
> >
> > > of  whether extension is enabled or not: this way users won't get
> >
> > spurious errors if they
> >
> > > suddenly enable extension and it turns out that some of their
> >
> > identifiers have become keywords.
> > I would be cautious here. Patch I am working on right now will use "kind"
> > as a reserved
> > identifier. It will only be allowed after `data` keyword. Making it a
> > reserved word everywhere
> > would be a major issue as many people doing type-level programming have
> > variables named "kind".
> > You ar right that problem would be much smaller if the keyword was
> > "datakind" but somehow I am
> > reluctant to seeing things like "datakindmember", "typeinstance", etc.
> > What others think about
> > this proposal?
> >
> > Janek
> >
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