haskellfoundation / haskellfoundation/haskell-2010-revised-report

Specify syntax of whitespace around operators

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Description

This is likely to be the most challenging task of updating the Haskell 2010 language report. We have to somehow incorporate the rules decided upon in https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0229-whitespace-bang-patterns.rst into the report, while at the same time not diverging too far from the BNF-like formalism that the report currently uses.

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Research direction

Start by reading the current Haskell 2010 language report's whitespace and operator grammar, then compare it with ghc-proposals proposal 0229-whitespace-bang-patterns.rst. Done means the report incorporates the decided whitespace rules without diverging unnecessarily from its existing BNF-like formalism.

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Assessment

Tech stack
haskell
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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