Andrei Borzenkov pushed to branch wip/sand-witch/27423-gadt-parens at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC Commits: e9eea6e4 by Andrei Borzenkov at 2026-08-11T10:30:39+04:00 Parentheses in prefix GADT constructors (#27423) Updated `splitLHsGadtTy` to allow looking through the parentheses for inner binders. General example of a code pattern that's allowed now: data S a where MkS :: (forall a. S a) That should work now with any combination of nested foralls and parentheses. We don't perform parenthesis unwrapping for record GADT constructors in accordance with GHC Proposal #402. To this end `con_inner_bndrs` no longer stores plain forall telescopes: `[HsForAllTelescope pass]` is replaced with `[LHsGadtArg pass]`, a new `HsArg`-style type whose `HsGadtForAll` holds an inner telescope and whose `HsGadtPar` holds a pair of parentheses. The parentheses carry no meaning for renaming or type checking; the only reason to record them is exact-printing. Updated `pprConDecl` to improve the `parse == parse . ppr . parse` property of GADT pretty-printing. The pretty printer can now output code that's similar to this: data T a where MkT1 :: (forall a. T a) MkT2 :: forall . forall a. T a These are special cases of inner forall binders for prefix GADT constructors, when we have either implicit or zero explicit outer binders. - - - - - 31 changed files: - + changelog.d/allow-gadt-prefix-con-parens - compiler/GHC/Hs/Decls.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Instances.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Type.hs - compiler/GHC/HsToCore/Quote.hs - compiler/GHC/Iface/Ext/Ast.hs - compiler/GHC/Rename/HsType.hs - compiler/GHC/Rename/Module.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Gen/HsType.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/TyCl.hs - compiler/Language/Haskell/Syntax/Decls.hs - compiler/Language/Haskell/Syntax/Type.hs - − testsuite/tests/gadt/T14320.stderr - testsuite/tests/gadt/T18191.hs - testsuite/tests/gadt/T18191.stderr - + testsuite/tests/gadt/T27423a.hs - + testsuite/tests/gadt/T27423b.hs - + testsuite/tests/gadt/T27423b.stderr - testsuite/tests/gadt/all.T - + testsuite/tests/parser/should_compile/T27423d.hs - + testsuite/tests/parser/should_compile/T27423d.stderr - testsuite/tests/parser/should_compile/all.T - testsuite/tests/printer/Makefile - + testsuite/tests/printer/T27423c.hs - testsuite/tests/printer/all.T - utils/check-exact/ExactPrint.hs - utils/haddock/haddock-api/src/Haddock/Backends/Hoogle.hs - utils/haddock/haddock-api/src/Haddock/Convert.hs - utils/haddock/haddock-api/src/Haddock/GhcUtils.hs - utils/haddock/haddock-api/src/Haddock/Interface/Rename.hs - utils/haddock/haddock-api/src/Haddock/Types.hs The diff was not included because it is too large. View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/commit/e9eea6e473e3695fb24e58bd3e71b8ae... -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/commit/e9eea6e473e3695fb24e58bd3e71b8ae... You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.haskell.org. Manage all notifications: https://gitlab.haskell.org/-/profile/notifications | Help: https://gitlab.haskell.org/help