ADOPT pragma for silencing orphan instances warnings per instance
Currently GHC only allows enabling and disabling the warnings about orphan instances on a module level. I’d like to have an ADOPT pragma that allows disabling the warning for specific instance:
instance {-# ADOPT #-} C Int
Apart from disabling the warning about orphan instances for this specific instance, this pragma should have no effect.
I already hacked together a prototype and I’m willing to clean that up and submit a diff if other people like this.
This does change the surface language but disabling a warning seem too small of an effect for the ghc proposals process (I’m happy to make a proposal if you disagree).
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| Priority | normal |
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