any luck using "retrie" refactoring tool on GHC sources?

[Ben Gamari]

Norman Ramsey <nr at cs.tufts.edu> writes:

> I'm trying to use the retrie refactoring tool, but I'm getting a
> mysterious error message: 
>
>     nr at homedog ~/a/g/compiler [1]> retrie --adhoc "forall x . not (backendNeedn'tLink x) == backendNeedsLink x"
>
>     parseAdhocs:1:80: error: parse error on input ‘#-}’
>     retrie: user error (parse failed)
>
> The Tool was installed using cabal install; its github page is
> https://github.com/facebookincubator/retrie/#readme.  
>
> Has anybody had any success using this tool on the GHC sources?
> I'd love a workaround, or just advice.
>
For what it's worth, Norman has reported this issue upstream as
https://github.com/facebookincubator/retrie/issues/41

Cheers,

- Ben
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