2014-11-20 9:36 GMT+01:00 Joachim Breitner <m...@joachim-breitner.de>: > [...] With your extensions it will have to read the directory contents. In > most situations, that should be fine, but it might cause minor > inconveniences with very large directories, many search paths (-i flags) > and/or very weird file systems (compiling from a FUSE-mounted > HTTP-Server that does not support directory listing? Would work now...)
Hmmm, IMHO reading directory contents is not a good idea for a compiler, for just the reasons you mentioned. > A fixed set of extensions (e.g. just "md" and "tex") would avoid this > problem, but goes against the spirit of the proposal. I think we can get the best of both worlds by adding a compiler flag, e.g. --literate-extensions=md,tex. This way the compiler still has to probe only a finite set of filenames *and* we are still flexible. Cheers, S. _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
