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-rw-r--r--compiler/parser/Lexer.x4
-rw-r--r--compiler/parser/RdrHsSyn.lhs17
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/parser/Lexer.x b/compiler/parser/Lexer.x
index 1692904223..4042a9c518 100644
--- a/compiler/parser/Lexer.x
+++ b/compiler/parser/Lexer.x
@@ -1435,8 +1435,8 @@ failMsgP msg = P $ \s -> PFailed (last_loc s) (text msg)
failLocMsgP :: SrcLoc -> SrcLoc -> String -> P a
failLocMsgP loc1 loc2 str = P $ \_ -> PFailed (mkSrcSpan loc1 loc2) (text str)
-failSpanMsgP :: SrcSpan -> String -> P a
-failSpanMsgP span msg = P $ \_ -> PFailed span (text msg)
+failSpanMsgP :: SrcSpan -> SDoc -> P a
+failSpanMsgP span msg = P $ \_ -> PFailed span msg
extension :: (Int -> Bool) -> P Bool
extension p = P $ \s -> POk s (p $! extsBitmap s)
diff --git a/compiler/parser/RdrHsSyn.lhs b/compiler/parser/RdrHsSyn.lhs
index 3697819afb..e3bb3696bb 100644
--- a/compiler/parser/RdrHsSyn.lhs
+++ b/compiler/parser/RdrHsSyn.lhs
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ import ForeignCall ( CCallConv, Safety, CCallTarget(..), CExportSpec(..),
DNCallSpec(..), DNKind(..), CLabelString )
import OccName ( srcDataName, varName, isDataOcc, isTcOcc,
occNameString )
+import PrelNames ( forall_tv_RDR )
import SrcLoc
import OrdList ( OrdList, fromOL )
import Bag ( Bag, emptyBag, snocBag, consBag, foldrBag )
@@ -401,7 +402,12 @@ tyConToDataCon loc tc
| isTcOcc (rdrNameOcc tc)
= return (L loc (setRdrNameSpace tc srcDataName))
| otherwise
- = parseError loc (showSDoc (text "Not a constructor:" <+> quotes (ppr tc)))
+ = parseErrorSDoc loc (msg $$ extra)
+ where
+ msg = text "Not a data constructor:" <+> quotes (ppr tc)
+ extra | tc == forall_tv_RDR
+ = text "Perhaps you intended to use -XExistentialQuantification"
+ | otherwise = empty
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Various Syntactic Checks
@@ -770,8 +776,8 @@ checkFunBind :: SrcSpan
-> P (HsBind RdrName)
checkFunBind lhs_loc fun is_infix pats opt_sig (L rhs_span grhss)
| isQual (unLoc fun)
- = parseError (getLoc fun) ("Qualified name in function definition: " ++
- showRdrName (unLoc fun))
+ = parseErrorSDoc (getLoc fun)
+ (ptext SLIT("Qualified name in function definition:") <+> ppr (unLoc fun))
| otherwise
= do ps <- checkPatterns pats
let match_span = combineSrcSpans lhs_loc rhs_span
@@ -1070,5 +1076,8 @@ showRdrName :: RdrName -> String
showRdrName r = showSDoc (ppr r)
parseError :: SrcSpan -> String -> P a
-parseError span s = failSpanMsgP span s
+parseError span s = parseErrorSDoc span (text s)
+
+parseErrorSDoc :: SrcSpan -> SDoc -> P a
+parseErrorSDoc span s = failSpanMsgP span s
\end{code}