Hello magesh, Sounds like a bug. Could you file a ticket in the GHC Trac, and CC alanz who had been most closely associated with annotations. Thanks, Edward Excerpts from magesh b's message of 2015-05-05 01:21:33 -0700:

As per user guide one of the restriction in annotating value is . The binder being annotated must be declared in the current module

But when I use TH to generate the annotation above restriction is not respected. Below is the minimal test case to reproduce the issue

---- Ann.hs

{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-} module Ann where

import Language.Haskell.TH

-- {-# Ann id "Orphan Ann for id" #-} -- *Rightly produces error "Not in scope: ‘id’"*

$(pragAnnD (ValueAnnotation 'id) [|"Orphan Ann for id"|] >>= return . return) --* Ideally this should have produced same error as above* ---- End of Ann.hs

---- Main.hs

{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-} module Main where

import Ann () import Language.Haskell.TH

ann :: [String] ann = $((reifyAnnotations (AnnLookupName 'id) :: Q [String]) >>= (\anns -> [|anns|])) --err = 'a' && True -- Uncomment to introduce compile error main :: IO () main = print ann

---- End of Main.hs

Also there is another bug in reifying the Orphan Annotations. In the above example Main.hs depends on Ann.hs which defines Annotation for `id` When Main.hs compiles fine in the first go, its is able to retrieve the annotation for `id` Instead, if Ann.hs compiled successfully and Main.hs failed to compile and when you later fix the Main.hs error, it is not able to retrieve that annotation without recompiling Ann.hs

Regards, Magesh B