Why are nested brackets disallowed?

[Richard Eisenberg]

I think Geoff was primarily concerned with typed Template Haskell, not the untyped variety.

I, too, have wondered if there was a technical reason behind this restriction, or if merely it was assumed that nested brackets were not worthwhile.

One question: how would staging work between nesting levels of brackets?

Richard

> On Jan 24, 2019, at 12:42 PM, Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org> wrote:
> 
> Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> There is a check in `RnSplice` which errors on the following program
>> with nested brackets.
>> 
> It might be good to explicitly include Geoff Mainland in this thread.
> I'm not sure he'll see it otherwise.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Ben
> 
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