#13012: ApiAnnotations comments are not machine checked -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: ezyang | Owner: alanz Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.1 (Parser) | Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Changes (by mpickering): * keywords: easy => Comment: This exact information already exists in ghc-exactprint - https://github.com/alanz/ghc- exactprint/blob/master/src/Language/Haskell/GHC/ExactPrint/Annotate.hs - and we tested it by running it on the whole of hackage. I agree that the comments are useless, any consumers should just use `ghc- exactprint` as it performs a lot of utility with the annotations. There haven't been many people who have used it though as the API is not great and balancing everything is quite complicated. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13012#comment:2 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler