On 07/07/2010 15:56, Christian Maeder wrote:
Simon Marlow schrieb:
The string "1 * - 1" is legal as pattern, but rejected as expression!
Well, it's not a pattern (* is a varop, not a conop), and it's an
illegal funlhs (* has greater precedence than prefix -).
it is legal as funlhs (ghc-6.12.3)!
1 * - 1 = 2
Main> 1 Main.* (-1)
2
Well, that's a bug in GHC, not the Haskell report :-)
see also:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4176
Thanks for reporting it.
Cheers,
Simon
Christian
Furthermore fixity resolution does not distinguish between constructors
and other operators as it should according to the grammar:
pat → lpat qconop pat (infix constructor)
| lpat
funlhs → var apat { apat }
| pat varop pat
| ( funlhs ) apat { apat }
"a : b * c : d = undefined" is currently rejected with:
"cannot mix `:' [infixr 5] and `Main.*' [infixl 9] in the same infix
expression"
but should be fine by the given grammar (rule "pat varop pat").
The grammar specifies a superset of the language; fixity resolution may
reject something that is legal according to the grammar. That's the
change we made in Haskell 2010: the grammar no longer attempts to
describe the language precisely with respect to fixity resolution, for
good reasons
(http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/FixityResolution).
See section 4.4.3.1 Function bindings:
"
Note that fixity resolution applies to the infix variants of the
function binding in the same way as for expressions (Section 10.6).
Applying fixity resolution to the left side of the equals in a function
binding must leave the varop being defined at the top level. For
example, if we are defining a new operator ## with precedence 6, then
this definition would be illegal:
a ## b : xs = exp
because : has precedence 5, so the left hand side resolves to (a ## x) :
xs, and this cannot be a pattern binding because (a ## x) is not a valid
pattern.
"
Perhaps this could be clearer, please do suggest improvements.
P.S. like in my proposal for infixexp I would change pat to:
pat → pat qconop pat (infix constructor)
| lpat
is there any need to do that? The grammar is non-ambiguous right now.
Cheers,
Simon
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