#9628: Add Annotations to the AST to simplify source to source conversions -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: alanz | Owner: alanz Type: feature | Status: new request | Milestone: Priority: normal | Version: 7.9 Component: Compiler | Keywords: Resolution: | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Operating System: | Difficulty: Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Blocked By: Type of failure: | Related Tickets: None/Unknown | Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: D297 | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by simonpj): I suggest doing so only if the two can differ. In the case of `String` there can be string gaps, thus {{{ foo :: String foo = "blah blah\ \more blah blah\ \and more" }}} and I guess you want to have all that layout reproduced. Fine. But for integers like `3234242329423`, I don't see how the displayed form could differ. For `Words` perhaps there is binary/hex forms? Regardless, I'm not against this, but very keen that the reasons for keeping the two are documented on a per-literal basis, as I have begun to do above. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9628#comment:29 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler