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authorRyan Scott <ryan.gl.scott@gmail.com>2019-12-26 19:47:04 -0500
committerMarge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org>2020-01-25 05:21:40 -0500
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Handle local fixity declarations in DsMeta properly
`DsMeta.rep_sig` used to skip over `FixSig` entirely, which had the effect of causing local fixity declarations to be dropped when quoted in Template Haskell. But there is no good reason for this state of affairs, as the code in `DsMeta.repFixD` (which handles top-level fixity declarations) handles local fixity declarations just fine. This patch factors out the necessary parts of `repFixD` so that they can be used in `rep_sig` as well. There was one minor complication: the fixity signatures for class methods in each `HsGroup` were stored both in `FixSig`s _and_ the list of `LFixitySig`s for top-level fixity signatures, so I needed to take action to prevent fixity signatures for class methods being converted to `Dec`s twice. I tweaked `RnSource.add` to avoid putting these fixity signatures in two places and added `Note [Top-level fixity signatures in an HsGroup]` in `GHC.Hs.Decls` to explain the new design. Fixes #17608. Bumps the Haddock submodule.
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@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ Template Haskell
forms have now been generalised in terms of a minimal interface necessary for the
implementation rather than the overapproximation of the ``Q`` monad.
+ - Template Haskell quotes now handle fixity declarations in ``let`` and
+ ``where`` bindings properly. Previously, such fixity declarations would
+ be dropped when quoted due to a Template Haskell bug.
+
``ghc-prim`` library
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -56,6 +60,20 @@ Template Haskell
=> ([Word8] -> a) -> ModGuts
-> CoreM (ModuleEnv [a], NameEnv [a])
+ - The meaning of the ``hs_fixds`` field of ``HsGroup`` has changed slightly.
+ It now only contains fixity signatures defined for top-level declarations
+ and class methods defined *outside* of the class itself. Previously,
+ ``hs_fixds`` would also contain fixity signatures for class methods defined
+ *inside* the class, such as the fixity signature for ``m`` in the following
+ example: ::
+
+ class C a where
+ infixl 4 `m`
+ m :: a -> a -> a
+
+ If you wish to attain the previous behavior of ``hs_fixds``, use the new
+ ``hsGroupTopLevelFixitySigs`` function, which collects all top-level fixity
+ signatures, including those for class methods defined inside classes.
``base`` library
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~