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authorTeo Camarasu <teofilcamarasu@gmail.com>2022-09-21 10:44:49 +0100
committerMarge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org>2022-10-21 13:23:07 -0400
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downloadhaskell-09ec7de23ea826cb7ac25cb96a214808693de377.tar.gz
template-haskell: Improve documentation of strictness annotation types
Before it was undocumentated that DecidedLazy can be returned by reifyConStrictness for strict fields. This can happen when a field has an unlifted type or its the single field of a newtype constructor. Fixes #21380
Diffstat (limited to 'libraries/template-haskell')
-rw-r--r--libraries/template-haskell/Language/Haskell/TH/Syntax.hs24
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/libraries/template-haskell/Language/Haskell/TH/Syntax.hs b/libraries/template-haskell/Language/Haskell/TH/Syntax.hs
index 2fb37e742b..0c74758fa6 100644
--- a/libraries/template-haskell/Language/Haskell/TH/Syntax.hs
+++ b/libraries/template-haskell/Language/Haskell/TH/Syntax.hs
@@ -2617,24 +2617,36 @@ type Cxt = [Pred] -- ^ @(Eq a, Ord b)@
-- be tuples of other constraints.
type Pred = Type
+-- | 'SourceUnpackedness' corresponds to unpack annotations found in the source code.
+--
+-- This may not agree with the annotations returned by 'reifyConStrictness'.
+-- See 'reifyConStrictness' for more information.
data SourceUnpackedness
= NoSourceUnpackedness -- ^ @C a@
| SourceNoUnpack -- ^ @C { {\-\# NOUNPACK \#-\} } a@
| SourceUnpack -- ^ @C { {\-\# UNPACK \#-\} } a@
deriving (Show, Eq, Ord, Data, Generic)
+-- | 'SourceStrictness' corresponds to strictness annotations found in the source code.
+--
+-- This may not agree with the annotations returned by 'reifyConStrictness'.
+-- See 'reifyConStrictness' for more information.
data SourceStrictness = NoSourceStrictness -- ^ @C a@
| SourceLazy -- ^ @C {~}a@
| SourceStrict -- ^ @C {!}a@
deriving (Show, Eq, Ord, Data, Generic)
-- | Unlike 'SourceStrictness' and 'SourceUnpackedness', 'DecidedStrictness'
--- refers to the strictness that the compiler chooses for a data constructor
--- field, which may be different from what is written in source code. See
--- 'reifyConStrictness' for more information.
-data DecidedStrictness = DecidedLazy
- | DecidedStrict
- | DecidedUnpack
+-- refers to the strictness annotations that the compiler chooses for a data constructor
+-- field, which may be different from what is written in source code.
+--
+-- Note that non-unpacked strict fields are assigned 'DecidedLazy' when a bang would be inappropriate,
+-- such as the field of a newtype constructor and fields that have an unlifted type.
+--
+-- See 'reifyConStrictness' for more information.
+data DecidedStrictness = DecidedLazy -- ^ Field inferred to not have a bang.
+ | DecidedStrict -- ^ Field inferred to have a bang.
+ | DecidedUnpack -- ^ Field inferred to be unpacked.
deriving (Show, Eq, Ord, Data, Generic)
-- | A single data constructor.