Add haskell-src as an official machine-readable component of the Haskell standard

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

See http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4430 for what we are proposing for Template Haskell.

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| -----Original Message-----
| From: haskell-prime-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:haskell-prime-bounces at haskell.org] On
| Behalf Of Lennart Augustsson
| Sent: 16 November 2010 19:52
| To: Ben Millwood
| Cc: haskell-prime at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: Add haskell-src as an official machine-readable component of the Haskell
| standard
| 
| Please explain.  Fixity information cannot be provided unless you find
| all the imported modules and process those, so I'm not sure how
| haskell-src-exts could do any better than it currently does.
| 
| >
| > (Examples of controversies possible in haskell-src: we have the Hs
| > prefix on constructors everywhere, we can't provide fixity information
| > (and the haskell-src-exts implementation of this is unsatisfactory in
| > several important ways), a lot of type class instances are absent
| > (even Ord!), the distribution of SrcLocs is a little awkward when
| > manipulating source abstractly, and some constructors allow impossible
| > values, e.g. HsLambda can contain zero patterns)
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