[Haskell-cafe] RFC: rewrite-with-location proposal

[Evan Laforge]

Hey, whatever happened with this?  Is there anything in the way of
getting this merged?  Is there some way I could help?

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:
> Quite a while back, Simon Hengel and I put together a proposal[1] for a new
> feature in GHC. The basic idea is pretty simple: provide a new pragma that
> could be used like so:
>
> error :: String -> a
> errorLoc :: IO Location -> String -> a
> {-# REWRITE_WITH_LOCATION error errorLoc #-}
>
> Then all usages of `error` would be converted into calls to `errorLoc` by
> the compiler, passing in the location information of where the call
> originated from. Our three intended use cases are:
>
> * Locations for failing test cases in a test framework
> * Locations for log messages
> * assert/error/undefined
>
> Note that the current behavior of the assert function[2] already includes
> this kind of approach, but it is a special case hard-coded into the
> compiler. This proposal essentially generalizes that behavior and makes it
> available for all functions, whether included with GHC or user-defined.
>
> The proposal spells out some details of this approach, and contrasts with
> other methods being used today for the same purpose, such as TH and CPP.
>
> Michael
>
> [1] https://github.com/sol/rewrite-with-location
> [2]
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/4.6.0.1/doc/html/Control-Exception.html#v:assert
>
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