Ticket #1318 (new feature request)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 1 week ago

add warning for prefix negate operator and flag to replace it with negative numeric literals

Reported by: Isaac Dupree Assigned to:
Priority: normal Milestone: _|_
Component: Compiler (Parser) Version: 6.6.1
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Difficulty: Unknown
Test Case: Architecture: Unknown/Multiple
Operating System: Unknown/Multiple

Description

This is tracking a few things relating to the notion that Haskell's single prefix operator, "-", should not exist and "-1" should parse as a single token anyway. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.glasgow.user/11954

If there is a LANGUAGE option for this, what should it be called; and what should the ghc flags be called? Should turning off prefix negation and turning on negative numeric literals be separately controllable? This sort of question (exactly what should be implemented) is probably half the difficulty here.

Change History

06/13/07 05:43:39 changed by Isaac Dupree

  • owner deleted.
  • milestone changed from 6.8 to _|_.

Work here is pending a specific proposal of what to implement, that there is consensus on. I'm not sure exactly what I want, and (given how my summer is turning out) I'm not really feeling up to making proposals for that. Anyone who wants this pursued further should do so (at which point I might implement that).

Well, there is one thing -fwarn-all-unary-minus that seems straightforward enough, if anyone else hates their semantics as well as syntax that much?

09/30/08 08:37:19 changed by simonmar

  • architecture changed from Unknown to Unknown/Multiple.

09/30/08 08:51:17 changed by simonmar

  • os changed from Unknown to Unknown/Multiple.