[GHC] #13608: Expose the type of quasiquotes

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#13608: Expose the type of quasiquotes
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        Reporter:                    |                Owner:
  facundo.dominguez                  |  facundo.dominguez
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  patch
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Template Haskell  |              Version:  8.0.1
      Resolution:                    |             Keywords:  QuasiQuotes
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |         Architecture:
                                     |  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |            Test Case:
      Blocked By:                    |             Blocking:
 Related Tickets:  12778             |  Differential Rev(s):  Phab:D3610
       Wiki Page:                    |
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Comment (by facundo.dominguez):

 > I don't understand the nested-splice issue.

 Suppose we have solved this problem for top-level splices, `[java| ... |]`
 gets the types it needs.

 Then one day someone tries `[| ... [java| ... |] ... |]`, and finds that
 it fails because the java quasiquoter gets the type of the top-level
 splice instead of its own type which occurs nested in the outer brackets.

 The solution discussed in ticket:12778#comment:11 is more attractive in
 this regard. It says: design any feature to work with outer splices.
 Presto! It will also work with nested splices because they are treated the
 same.

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