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Simon Peyton Jones authored
This patch supports the quasi-quotation feature. Here's the relevant parts from the message in the big compiler patch: Fri Jan 18 14:55:03 GMT 2008 simonpj@microsoft.com * Add quasi-quotation, courtesy of Geoffrey Mainland This patch adds quasi-quotation, as described in "Nice to be Quoted: Quasiquoting for Haskell" (Geoffrey Mainland, Haskell Workshop 2007) Implemented by Geoffrey and polished by Simon. ...snip... * There is an accompanying patch to the template-haskell library. This involves one interface change: currentModule :: Q String is replaced by location :: Q Loc where Loc is a data type defined in TH.Syntax thus: data Loc = Loc { loc_filename :: String , loc_package :: String , loc_module :: String , loc_start :: CharPos , loc_end :: CharPos } type CharPos = (Int, Int) -- Line and character position So you get a lot more info from 'location' than from 'currentModule'. The location you get is the location of the splice. This works in Template Haskell too of course, and lets a TH program generate much better error messages. * There's also a new module in the template-haskell package called Language.Haskell.TH.Quote, which contains support code for the quasi-quoting feature.
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