Ignoring ANN Module "HLint: ..."

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 1:44 AM, Moritz Angermann <
moritz.angermann at gmail.com> wrote:

> can we detect annotations like `{-# ANN module "HLint: ignore Reduce
> duplication" #-}` easily?
> Right now this will result (without -fexternal-interpreter or a stage2
> compiler) in
>
>   Ignoring ANN annotation, because this is a stage-1 compiler without
> -fexternal-interpreter or doesn't support GHCi
>
> However, I do not see why this should require the external interpreter at
> all. This looks to me
> more like an informational comment?
>

As I understand it, ANNotations are intended for use with ghc plugins;
hlint's use of them is not *quite* an abuse, since it is relying on
haskell-src-exts handling of them rather than ghc's.

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