hlint cannot parse records

[begriffs]

For some reason hlint 1.9.16 is unable to parse files containing types defined using records. I first encountered this in my own program that uses your record library (where linting happens as a step in continuous integration). Just to be sure I ran your demo code through hlint and saw the same kind of error.

demo/Main.hs:14:3: Warning: Parse error: [$record| {name :: String, birthday :: {year :: Int, month :: Int, day :: Int}} ]
Found:
    type Person =
  >   [record| {name :: String, birthday :: {year :: Int, month :: Int, day :: Int}} |]

    type Event =

Not sure why hlint finds this problematic, but I'd like to find a way to appease it.

[nikita-volkov]

I think Hlint's issue tracker is a more proper place for this. I have no idea what's causing this.

[aavogt]

haskell-src-exts seems to be to blame: while it supports quasiquotes in expressions (https://github.com/haskell-suite/haskell-src-exts/blob/master/src/Language/Haskell/Exts/Syntax.hs#L554) there's no corresponding constructor in data Type.

[aavogt]

Once haskell-suite/haskell-src-exts#208 makes its way into a release (and hlint uses that haskell-src-exts), this problem should go away.

[nikita-volkov]

@aavogt Thanks for the update.