Re: update to Template Haskell for rich kinds

2012-03-20 Thread José Pedro Magalhães
Hi Richard, Thanks for taking this up! One question: won't we need syntax for arbitrary promoted constructors (other than lists and tuples) in TH's Type datatype? Also, is the Constraint kind already in TH? If not, this might be a good time to add it too. Cheers, Pedro On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at

GHCi and line numbers (with ghc-7.4.1)

2012-03-20 Thread Simon Hengel
Hi, ghc --interactive now behaves different in regards to line numbers in error messages than previous versions. They are now incremented with each evaluated expression. $ ghc --interactive -ignore-dot-ghci Prelude foo interactive:2:1: Not in scope: `foo' Prelude bar

Re: update to Template Haskell for rich kinds

2012-03-20 Thread Richard Eisenberg
Yes, we will, but this is already support through the use of ConT. The namespaces of defined types and of promoted types are also already kept distinct. The one update we would want here is an extension to the name quoting syntax. I've updated the Wiki page with my thoughts and plans here: