lspitzner / lspitzner/brittany
Arrow notation
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enhancement
language extension support
priority: low
- Dominant language
- Haskell
- Stars
- 686
- Forks
- 69
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
Brittany currently fails for the entire file whenever it encounters arrow notation.
```
ERROR: brittany pretty printer returned syntactically invalid result.
ERROR: encountered unknown syntactical constructs:
HsProc{}
```
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Research direction
Reproduce the failure with a Haskell file containing arrow notation and confirm the HsProc{} diagnostic. Then trace the formatter path that handles this syntax; done means Brittany formats the file without returning syntactically invalid output or failing the entire file.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- haskell
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100