On 02/05/2016 01:31 AM, Edward Z. Yang wrote: > I'm not really sure how you would change the type of 'id' based on > a language pragma. > > How do people feel about a cosmetic fix, where we introduce a new > pragma, {-# LANGUAGE ShowLevity #-} which controls the display of levity > arguments/TYPE. It's off by default but gets turned on by some > extensions like MagicHash (i.e. we only show levity if you have > enabled extensions where the distinction matters).
Yes, I am surprised this isn't the way it's been done. The levity arguments should totally be hidden unless requested explicitly. I'd only expect this to be a ghc flag (-fshow-levity), not a language pragma, since it should only affect the way types are /shown/. Roman
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