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

[Simon Hengel]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:40:29AM +0100, Twan van Laarhoven wrote:
> I think there is no need to have a separate REWRITE_WITH_LOCATION
> rule. What if the compiler instead rewrites 'currentLocation' to the
> current location? Then you'd just define the rule:
>
> {-# REWRITE "errorLoc" error = errorLoc currentLocation #-}

REWRITE rules are only enabled with -O.  Source locations are also
useful during development (when you care more about compilation time
than efficient code and hence use -O0).  So I'm not sure whether it's a
good idea to lump those two things together.

Cheers,
Simon