2016-08-19 10:58 GMT+02:00 Harendra Kumar <[email protected]>:
> Funnily consistency was my point too and not convenience. I totally agree > that consistency is more important. The end objective is less referring to > manuals and rely more on intuition and consistency. Its all about making it > easier to remember and not about typing less or more. [...] > OK, then I probably misunderstood you and we're actually in the same boat... :-) > [...] As you said I would be happier with an inconvenient to type but > consistent alternative where we use '--ghc-arg=' for everything and get rid > of the other ways. [...] > Hmmm, do we need '--ghc-args=' at all when we have '--' as the border between the 2 "argument worlds"? Without thinking too much about it, :-} I guess we don't. This would be consistent with how e.g. "stack exec" or "gdb" work. An explicit option --pass-this-to-some-progXY is only needed when there are more than 2 "argument worlds" involved, otherwise '--' is enough, and also easier to type/remember.
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