[GHC] #8959: GHCi should honour UnicodeSyntax
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#8959: GHCi should honour UnicodeSyntax
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Reporter: Fuuzetsu | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: low | Milestone: 7.12.1
Component: Compiler | Version: 7.6.3
Resolution: | Keywords:
Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture:
Type of failure: None/Unknown | Unknown/Multiple
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Comment (by int-e):
I'm unhappy with this change, because it uses a language extension that
affects accepted **input** (namely, `UnicodeSyntax`) to modify the
**output** of ghci. I would prefer having a ghci-specific option (say,
`:set +/-u` or more verbosely, `:set +/-unicodeoutput`) instead.
This is not just cosmetics; the current behaviour broke lambdabot's `:t`
and `:k` commands, which parse ghci's output.
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Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8959#comment:14>
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