Note [Api annotations]
Ben Gamari
ben at smart-cactus.org
Wed Jul 20 11:22:59 UTC 2016
Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering at gmail.com> writes:
> These comments are meant to indicate which annotations each AST
> fragment has. However, they are rarely kept up to date and ultimately
> not that useful. If someone wants to
> know then it is easier to look at the `Annotate` module in
> `ghc-exactprint`where this information also exists programatically.
>
Hmm, the fact that this module is outside of GHC is a bit unfortunate.
If I'm looking at a random GHC commit from a year ago how am I to know
which annotations I can expect? I guess the testsuite?
Cheers,
- Ben
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