[project @ 2006-01-10 14:39:01 by simonmar]

Add a TODO

diff --git a/ghc/compiler/parser/Lexer.x b/ghc/compiler/parser/Lexer.x
index be8dadd..84e5a1a 100644 (file)
--- a/ghc/compiler/parser/Lexer.x
+++ b/ghc/compiler/parser/Lexer.x
@@ -1381,6 +1381,10 @@ lexToken = do
        span `seq` setLastToken span bytes
        t span buf bytes
 
+-- ToDo: Alex reports the buffer at the start of the erroneous lexeme,
+-- but it would be more informative to report the location where the
+-- error was actually discovered, especially if this is a decoding
+-- error.
 reportLexError loc1 loc2 buf str = 
   let 
        c = fst (nextChar buf)