Is it hard to treat all names beginning with '_' as used (and
otherwise behave as GHC6 does)? That seems to give us the best of
both worlds. Or no?
mike
> I'd be interested to know what others think about this. The
> disadvantage with the GHC5 behaviour is that you might see a warning
> about "unused f", remove the definition of "f", and thereby provoke a
> new warning, for a function "g" that was mentioned in f's right hand
> side.
>
> It's easy to change -- the only question is what the desired behaviour
> should be.
>
> simon
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:glasgow-haskell-bugs-
> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Gunter
> | Sent: 14 November 2003 06:58
> | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | Subject: RFunE: "Unused"ness for warnings transitive in GHC 6.0.1
> |
> |
> | GHC 5 seemed to warn that a binding was unused if it was never
> | referenced. Now (on 6.0.1) it seems to warn if a binding is never
> | referenced by a used binding. I.e, "used"ness is now transitive.
> | (Neither version warns about bindings with names beginning with '_'.)
> |
> | I like the old behavior much better. I often have unexported bindings
> | (e.g. for testing) with names beginning with '_'. Sometimes these are
> | the exclusive users of imported or locally defined bindings. With the
> | GHC 5, I got no warnings. With GHC 6, I do.
> |
> | Loading the attached file gives me no warnings (with -Wall
> | -fno-warn-missing-signatures -fno-warn-type-defaults) on GHCi 5.04.3.
> | I get several on GHCi 6.0.1.
> |
> | thanks,
> | mike
> |
> |
> |
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