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author | Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com> | 2014-01-09 17:58:18 +0000 |
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committer | Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com> | 2014-01-09 17:58:48 +0000 |
commit | 73c08ab10e4077e18e459a1325996bff110360c3 (patch) | |
tree | 779ba96f15da23ff993ff7a15f05ec5adb01436e /compiler/rename/RnNames.lhs | |
parent | 322b48b92b93e1250b360d21873fa9f31c142403 (diff) | |
download | haskell-73c08ab10e4077e18e459a1325996bff110360c3.tar.gz |
Re-work the naming story for the GHCi prompt (Trac #8649)
The basic idea here is simple, and described in Note [The interactive package]
in HscTypes, which starts thus:
Note [The interactive package]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Type and class declarations at the command prompt are treated as if
they were defined in modules
interactive:Ghci1
interactive:Ghci2
...etc...
with each bunch of declarations using a new module, all sharing a
common package 'interactive' (see Module.interactivePackageId, and
PrelNames.mkInteractiveModule).
This scheme deals well with shadowing. For example:
ghci> data T = A
ghci> data T = B
ghci> :i A
data Ghci1.T = A -- Defined at <interactive>:2:10
Here we must display info about constructor A, but its type T has been
shadowed by the second declaration. But it has a respectable
qualified name (Ghci1.T), and its source location says where it was
defined.
So the main invariant continues to hold, that in any session an original
name M.T only refers to oe unique thing. (In a previous iteration both
the T's above were called :Interactive.T, albeit with different uniques,
which gave rise to all sorts of trouble.)
This scheme deals nicely with the original problem. It allows us to
eliminate a couple of grotseque hacks
- Note [Outputable Orig RdrName] in HscTypes
- Note [interactive name cache] in IfaceEnv
(both these comments have gone, because the hacks they describe are no
longer necessary). I was also able to simplify Outputable.QueryQualifyName,
so that it takes a Module/OccName as args rather than a Name.
However, matters are never simple, and this change took me an
unreasonably long time to get right. There are some details in
Note [The interactive package] in HscTypes.
Diffstat (limited to 'compiler/rename/RnNames.lhs')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/rename/RnNames.lhs b/compiler/rename/RnNames.lhs index 783823bd11..823123309b 100644 --- a/compiler/rename/RnNames.lhs +++ b/compiler/rename/RnNames.lhs @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ created by its bindings. Note [Top-level Names in Template Haskell decl quotes] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -See also: Note [Interactively-bound Ids in GHCi] in TcRnDriver +See also: Note [Interactively-bound Ids in GHCi] in HscTypes Consider a Template Haskell declaration quotation like this: module M where |