[Haskell-cafe] extra semi-colons

[Johannes Waldmann]

On 6/26/19 9:09 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> As of at least recently, empty cases are entirely permitted 

Yes I know, but this is not about "empty case" (= no alternative?),
but about one (or more) empty alternatives
(that are accepted without -XEmptyCase ).

I admit it's not related to any practical problem.
It came up in the following way: a student
who compared  ghc's  behaviour to that of a purpose-built parser
for case expressions that I wrote for my e-Learning/testing system.

And I thought - well, the Standard certainly should
explain ghc's behaviour, but I have a hard time parsing it.

More nit-picking: while   "case () of { }"
prompts the "Use EmptyCase" hint,
"case () of { ; }" is a parse error (no hint),
with or without -XEmptyCase.

- J