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Sugar.md

The desugaring pipeline proceeds as follows:

  • Remove signed literals in favour of negate applications
  • Desugar object literals with wildcards into lambdas
  • Desugar operator sections
  • Desugar do-notation using the @Prelude.Monad@ type class
  • Desugar top-level case declarations into explicit case expressions
  • Desugar type declarations into value declarations with explicit type annotations
  • Qualify any unqualified names and types
  • Rebracket user-defined binary operators
  • Introduce type synonyms for type class dictionaries
  • Group mutually recursive value and data declarations into binding groups.

Comment: what I don't understand:

  • Desugar operator sections: desugarOperatorSections
  • Rebracket user-defined binary operators: rebracket
  • Introduce type synonyms for type class dictionaries: desugarTypeClasses