Hi everyone, Recently Neil Mitchell opened a pull request [1] proposing a single-line change: Adding `{-# HLINT ... #-}` to the list of pragmas ignored by the lexer. I'm a bit skeptical of this idea. Afterall, adding cases to the lexer for every tool that wants a pragma seems quite unsustainable. On the other hand, a reasonable counter-argument could be made on the basis of the Haskell Report, which specifically says that implementations should ignore unrecognized pragmas. If GHC did this (instead of warning, as it now does) then this wouldn't be a problem. Of course, silently ignoring mis-typed pragmas sounds terrible from a usability perspective. For this reason I proposed that the following happen: * The `{-# ... #-}` syntax be reserved in particular for compilers (it largely already is; the Report defines it as "compiler pragma" syntax). The next Report should also allow implementations to warn in the case of unrecognized pragmas. * We introduce a "tool pragma" convention (perhaps even standardized in the next Report). For this we can follow the model of Liquid Haskell: `{-@ $TOOL_NAME ... @-}`. Does this sound sensible? Cheers, - Ben [1] https://github.com/ghc/ghc/pull/204