Bother. That's true. And it's a vital feature. Otherwise how do we do
data T = T1 | T2
$(makeLenses 'T)
So we can't separate the two after all. Sorry -- I totally forgot about that.
Very annoying.
Simon
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Edward Z. Yang [mailto:ezy...@mit.edu]
| Sent: 08 January 2016 19:40
| To: Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com>
| Cc: ghc-devs <ghc-devs@haskell.org>
| Subject: Reify and separating renamer+TH from type-checking
|
| I implemented the refactoring to run the renamer and TH splices all
| first before doing any type-checking, but actually there's a problem:
| Template Haskell splices can call 'reify', which needs the type
| information in order to supply the information about the identifiers
| in question. I can't think of any good way around this problem.
|
| Edward
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