Record the original text along with parsed Rationals: fixes #2245

[ghc-hetmet.git] / compiler / basicTypes / BasicTypes.lhs

diff --git a/compiler/basicTypes/BasicTypes.lhs b/compiler/basicTypes/BasicTypes.lhs
index f077882..a76ee64 100644 (file)
--- a/compiler/basicTypes/BasicTypes.lhs
+++ b/compiler/basicTypes/BasicTypes.lhs
@@ -72,13 +72,16 @@ module BasicTypes(
         inlinePragmaActivation, inlinePragmaRuleMatchInfo,
         setInlinePragmaActivation, setInlinePragmaRuleMatchInfo,
 
-       SuccessFlag(..), succeeded, failed, successIf
+       SuccessFlag(..), succeeded, failed, successIf,
+       
+       FractionalLit(..)
    ) where
 
 import FastString
 import Outputable
 
 import Data.Data hiding (Fixity)
+import Data.Function (on)
 \end{code}
 
 %************************************************************************
@@ -862,3 +865,25 @@ isEarlyActive (ActiveBefore {}) = True
 isEarlyActive _                        = False
 \end{code}
 
+
+
+\begin{code}
+-- Used to represent exactly the floating point literal that we encountered in
+-- the user's source program. This allows us to pretty-print exactly what the user
+-- wrote, which is important e.g. for floating point numbers that can't represented
+-- as Doubles (we used to via Double for pretty-printing). See also #2245.
+data FractionalLit
+  = FL { fl_text :: String         -- How the value was written in the source
+       , fl_value :: Rational      -- Numeric value of the literal
+       }
+  deriving (Data, Typeable)
+
+-- Comparison operations are needed when grouping literals
+-- for compiling pattern-matching (module MatchLit)
+
+instance Eq FractionalLit where
+  (==) = (==) `on` fl_value
+
+instance Ord FractionalLit where
+  compare = compare `on` fl_value
+\end{code}