Support for unicode primes on identifiers.
GHC should allow the (single/double/triple/quadruple) prime characters in Unicode to be allowed in identifiers. This would make them consistent with the ASCII apostrophe, which is usually used in place of a single prime. The current workaround for primes (using one or more apostrophes) is unwieldy for higher primes (e.g. a''' and a'''').
All of the following identifiers should be valid.
a' // U+0027 APOSTROPHE
a′ // U+2032 PRIME
a″ // U+2033 DOUBLE PRIME
a‴ // U+2034 TRIPLE PRIME
a⁗ // U+2057 QUADRUPLE PRIMETrac metadata
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| Version | 7.10.2 |
| Type | FeatureRequest |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | low |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
| Component | Compiler (Parser) |
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