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Trouble parsing arithmetic sequence syntax

The Haskell-98 program

module Bug where

blah = [True..]

does not compile. I assume this is because GHC thinks that I'm accessing the operator . from the module True. It took me a little while to figure out what was going on here!

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Version 8.1
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
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