The new dynamism is pretty nice! I even used GHC 7.6.3 to build
cabal-install 1.18, then played with PATH so that when I said "cabal
install mtl" it saw GHC 7.8. It correctly added -dynamic-too and built
both *.a and *.so in one go. This is very user-friendly.
Still, I observed a few oddities.
1. Referring to the user guide section 2.3 "loading compiled code", it
is now insufficient to "ghc -c D.hs". It has to be "ghc -c -dynamic D.hs".
Perhaps more importantly, "ghc -c -dynamic-too D.hs" is also
insufficient. Apparently, while TemplateHaskell considers both *.hi and
*.dyn_hi, :load considers *.hi only.
2. My experiment began with just QuasiQuote. QuasiQuote needs as much
dynamism as TemplateHaskell. Yet, QuasiQuote does not trigger a nice
implicit -dynamic-too, unlike TemplateHaskell.
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