Re: any luck using "retrie" refactoring tool on GHC sources?

Norman Ramsey writes:

I'm trying to use the retrie refactoring tool, but I'm getting a mysterious error message:

nr@homedog ~/a/g/compiler [1]> retrie --adhoc "forall x . not (backendNeedn'tLink x) == backendNeedsLink x"

parseAdhocs:1:80: error: parse error on input ‘#-}’ retrie: user error (parse failed)

The Tool was installed using cabal install; its github page is https://github.com/facebookincubator/retrie/#readme.

Has anybody had any success using this tool on the GHC sources? I'd love a workaround, or just advice.

For what it's worth, Norman has reported this issue upstream as https://github.com/facebookincubator/retrie/issues/41 Cheers, - Ben