I wrote: >> I was suggesting that whenever the Prelude fails to load, >> the error message should contain that hint.
> hmm, I'll think about that. Is it not enough to see a compilation error > pointing to the file Prelude.hs? Seems obvious in the context of this thread. But not being in the middle of reading the thread, I am certain that this hint would save me a lot of time and anguish. And it clearly would have done the same for Josef. > it's probably not that bad, actually: > > $ ghc --make hello > [1 of 2] Compiling Prelude ( Prelude.hs, Prelude.o ) > [2 of 2] Compiling Main ( hello.hs, hello.o ) > > hello.hs:1:8: Not in scope: `putStr' > > You can pretty clearly see what happened there. When something goes wrong with a basic system component like the Prelude, the natural reaction of most people is panic. I've been getting file system corruption lately on a removable hard disk - could it be that? Did I cause this when I moved around some system directories the other day? Are my different copies of GHC getting mixed up with each other's files? It's hard to overestimate how much a soothing message from GHC is appreciated in that kind of situation. Thanks, Yitz _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users