wondering about -ddump-parsed, rn

Isaac Dupree isaacdupree at charter.net
Thu Aug 9 05:51:12 EDT 2007


Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> -ddump-parsed shows the program after parsing.  All operator application are parsed *left-associative* with one precedence. Then the renamer re-associates them to respect precedence and associativity.
> 
> So, no, -ddump-parsed will definitely not give syntactically valid Haskell. -ddump-rn probably will though.

yes, in that case, would anyone mind if I find an easy way to change GHC 
to parenthesize those non-infix uses of operators? :)  hmm... maybe _I_ 
would mind, since it makes "what GHC is doing" just a tiny bit less 
transparent to the user of -ddump-{rn,parsed}. :-)

Isaac


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