[Haskell-cafe] RebindableSyntax and fail in GHC 8

[Chris Smith]

Thanks Richard, I will file the bug shortly.

David, fail doesn't appear to be used at all, either for pattern match
failure (which I initially expected), or for guards.  Example here:
https://code.world/#P2ZO5lhXKM5QGYh-vRd31Ug

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 12:56 PM, David Menendez <dave at zednenem.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 3:53 AM, Chris Smith <cdsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> Can someone explain to me by GHC 8 causes list comprehension bindings to
>> desugar to use 'fail', when RebindableSyntax is enabled in GHC 8?  Note
>> that I do not have monad comprehensions enabled.  If I define fail,
>> everything works (apparently regardless of what I define fail to do?!?),
>> but I'd like to understand why it's necessary.
>>
>
> Perhaps fail is used by the translation for guards. I don’t have a working
> GHC right now, but what happens if you define fail = error and evaluate [ x
> | x <- “a", False]?
>
> --
> Dave Menendez <dave at zednenem.com>
> <http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/>
>
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