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authorIan Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>2010-11-23 23:35:36 +0000
committerIan Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>2010-11-23 23:35:36 +0000
commit46809fa91667e952afe016e4cd704b21274241b4 (patch)
tree81e28ff1ad4024b4d34cc2ccf75186b515e409fd /compiler/parser
parentb56d78783390e922c4bc8106f04729de01749e01 (diff)
downloadhaskell-46809fa91667e952afe016e4cd704b21274241b4.tar.gz
Remove references to Haskell 98
They are no longer right, as we have Haskell' generating new Haskell standards.
Diffstat (limited to 'compiler/parser')
-rw-r--r--compiler/parser/LexCore.hs3
-rw-r--r--compiler/parser/Parser.y.pp8
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/parser/LexCore.hs b/compiler/parser/LexCore.hs
index 736450a21d..68b3419163 100644
--- a/compiler/parser/LexCore.hs
+++ b/compiler/parser/LexCore.hs
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ lexNum cont cs =
| isDigit c -> cont (TKrational (fromInteger sgn * r)) rest'
where ((r,rest'):_) = readFloat (digits ++ ('.':c:rest))
-- When reading a floating-point number, which is
- -- a bit complicated, use the Haskell 98 library function
+ -- a bit complicated, use the standard library function
+ -- "readFloat"
(digits,rest) -> cont (TKinteger (sgn * (read digits))) rest
lexName :: (a -> String -> b) -> (String -> a) -> String -> b
diff --git a/compiler/parser/Parser.y.pp b/compiler/parser/Parser.y.pp
index 8d561bab9f..98599498ae 100644
--- a/compiler/parser/Parser.y.pp
+++ b/compiler/parser/Parser.y.pp
@@ -1356,8 +1356,8 @@ aexp2 :: { LHsExpr RdrName }
| RATIONAL { sL (getLoc $1) (HsOverLit $! mkHsFractional (getRATIONAL $1) placeHolderType) }
-- N.B.: sections get parsed by these next two productions.
- -- This allows you to write, e.g., '(+ 3, 4 -)', which isn't correct Haskell98
- -- (you'd have to write '((+ 3), (4 -))')
+ -- This allows you to write, e.g., '(+ 3, 4 -)', which isn't
+ -- correct Haskell (you'd have to write '((+ 3), (4 -))')
-- but the less cluttered version fell out of having texps.
| '(' texp ')' { LL (HsPar $2) }
| '(' tup_exprs ')' { LL (ExplicitTuple $2 Boxed) }
@@ -1417,8 +1417,8 @@ texp :: { LHsExpr RdrName }
-- Note [Parsing sections]
-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- We include left and right sections here, which isn't
- -- technically right according to Haskell 98. For example
- -- (3 +, True) isn't legal
+ -- technically right according to the Haskell standard.
+ -- For example (3 +, True) isn't legal.
-- However, we want to parse bang patterns like
-- (!x, !y)
-- and it's convenient to do so here as a section