6.1.3. Summary of stolen syntax¶
Turning on an option that enables special syntax might cause working Haskell 98 code to fail to compile, perhaps because it uses a variable name which has become a reserved word. This section lists the syntax that is “stolen” by language extensions. We use notation and nonterminal names from the Haskell 98 lexical syntax (see the Haskell 98 Report). We only list syntax changes here that might affect existing working programs (i.e. “stolen” syntax). Many of these extensions will also enable new context-free syntax, but in all cases programs written to use the new syntax would not be compilable without the option enabled.
There are two classes of special syntax:
- New reserved words and symbols: character sequences which are no longer available for use as identifiers in the program.
- Other special syntax: sequences of characters that have a different meaning when this particular option is turned on.
The following syntax is stolen:
forall
Stolen (in types) by default (see Lexical syntax).
forall
is a reserved keyword and never a type variable, in accordance with GHC Proposal #43.mdo
Stolen by:
RecursiveDo
foreign
Stolen by:
ForeignFunctionInterface
rec
,proc
,-<
,>-
,-<<
,>>-
,(|
,|)
Stolen by:
Arrows
?varid
Stolen by:
ImplicitParams
[|
,[e|
,[p|
,[d|
,[t|
,[||
,[e||
Stolen by:
QuasiQuotes
. Moreover, this introduces an ambiguity with list comprehension syntax. See the discussion on quasi-quoting for details.$(
,$$(
,$varid
,$$varid
Stolen by:
TemplateHaskell
[varid|
Stolen by:
QuasiQuotes
- ⟨varid⟩,
#
⟨char⟩,#
, ⟨string⟩,#
, ⟨integer⟩,#
, ⟨float⟩,#
, ⟨float⟩,##
- Stolen by:
MagicHash
(#
,#)
- Stolen by:
UnboxedTuples
- ⟨varid⟩,
!
, ⟨varid⟩ - Stolen by:
BangPatterns
pattern
- Stolen by:
PatternSynonyms
static
- Stolen by:
StaticPointers