Another way to figure it out is the shift/reduce conflict on @, which tells you it had two ways to recognize it. "Reduce" here means returning to your parser rule, so "shift" means btype wanted to recognize the @. Inspecting btype would then have shown that it was looking for a type application.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 03:17 Csongor Kiss <kiss.csongor.kiss@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks a lot Vlad and Shayne, that indeed did the trick!

Out of curiosity, how could I have figured out that this was the culprit? The parse
error I got was a bit puzzling, and I couldn't find any flags that would give more information
(I think I was looking for the parser equivalent of -ddump-tc-trace).

Best,
Csongor

On 29 Aug 2020, at 00:51, Shayne Fletcher <shayne.fletcher.50@gmail.com> wrote:



On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 7:48 PM Shayne Fletcher <shayne.fletcher.50@gmail.com> wrote:


On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 7:38 PM Vladislav Zavialov <vladislav@serokell.io> wrote:
Hi Csongor,

I believe the reason for this failure is that  a -> @m b  gets parsed as  a -> @(m b).
Why is that? Because a ‘btype’ includes type-level application.

If you replace the ‘btype’ after PREFIX_AT with an ‘atype’, this particular issue should go away. At least that’s my hypothesis, I haven’t tested it.


I confirm that this is correct and with that change the example string reduces as hoped.


- Vlad

Also, with that correction there are no new shift/reduce conflicts. The original rule gave rise to 3.

-- 
Shayne Fletcher

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