I think it belongs in the HsSyn syntax tree.  The RdrName for (say)  
Prelude.map is the same RdrName, whether or not it looks like `Prelude.map`.

Simon

From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Alan & Kim 
Zimmerman
Sent: 05 August 2016 14:40
To: ghc-devs@haskell.org
Subject: RdrName and decorations

Hi all

At the moment I am working through ghc-exactprint, adding a feature to add 
standard API annotations to any constructed AST so that it can be 
(pretty)-printed.
One of the major headaches is the decorations on a RdrName.
What I mean by this is that an item appearing in the AST as a RdrName may have 
parens or backquotes around it, and may have a preceding keyword out of 
[forall, pattern, type].
I am slowly teasing out the contextual requirements to determine these, but it 
seems that they should be captured directly in the AST already.  And not as API 
Annotations.
So the question is, does it make sense to do this?  Does it belong in the 
OccName or the RdrName if so?

Alan

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