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1831	reify never provides the declaration of variables	guest		"The information returned by reify when provided a variable Name is

{{{
VarI Name Type (Maybe Dec) Fixity
}}}

The Dec part, due to be nested in Maybe, is clearly optional. In fact, according to Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax:

{{{
-- Nothing for lambda-bound variables, and
-- for anything else TH can't figure out
-- E.g. [| let x = 1 in $(do { d <- reify 'x; .. }) |]
}}}

However, the typechecker (TcSplice module) always returns Nothing. So it's simply not implemented.


I suggest either implementing the feature or removing the Dec part of VarI. Either way, the type should be consistent with the features offered in TH.
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