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by Vladislav Zavialov at 2026-02-27T18:46:03-05:00
Drop HsTyLit in favor of HsLit (#26862, #25121)
This patch is a small step towards unification of HsExpr and HsType,
taking care of literals (HsLit) and type literals (HsTyLit).
Additionally, it improves error messages for unsupported type literals,
such as unboxed or fractional literals (test cases: T26862, T26862_th).
Changes to the AST:
* Use HsLit where HsTyLit was previously used
* Use HsChar where HsCharTy was previously used
* Use HsString where HsStrTy was previously used
* Use HsNatural (NEW) where HsNumTy was previously used
* Use HsDouble (NEW) to represent unsupported fractional type literals
Changes to logic:
* Parse unboxed and fractional type literals (to be rejected later)
* Drop the check for negative literals in the renamer (rnHsTyLit)
in favor of checking in the type checker (tc_hs_lit_ty)
* Check for invalid type literals in TH (repTyLit) and report
unrepresentable literals with ThUnsupportedTyLit
* Allow negative type literals in TH (numTyLit). This is fine as
these will be taken care of at splice time (test case: T8306_th)