HsLexer does not recognize _var as valid
HsLexer does not recognize _var as a valid pattern, for
instance the following leads to a parse error:
case apa of
_bepa -> cepa
I've attached a patch that fixes this, but it's not
very nice. At least it shows the problem.
The Haskell report allows _ at the start of vars and
considers it lower case.
See 2.2 of the Haskell report, _ is not treated
differently than other small characters. The only
special case about _ is that _ is a reservedid, so it
should really be parsed as such (KW_Underscore for
instance). This requires changes in the parser, my
patch only changes the lexer (not changing the data type).
Trac metadata
| Trac field | Value |
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| Version | 5.0 |
| Type | Bug |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | normal |
| Resolution | ResolvedFixed |
| Component | hslibs/hssource |
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