#10996: family is treated as keyword in types even without TypeFamilies enabled -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: oerjan | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: GHC rejects | Test Case: type Test valid program | family = family Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by simonpj): Oerjan, that's exactly right. I'm not sure how much effort it's worth devoting to this, but I agree that that the current situation is a mess: * Most things are dealt with as `special_id`; good * 'forall' has its own special lexer treatment, so at least it is not stolen until you switch on `ExplicitForAlls` * But 'role' and 'family' are stolen all the time, in types. Which is a Haskell 98 or 2010 violation. It's annoying! -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10996#comment:5 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler