Agreed, this sounds sensible. Can anyone think of any unintended consequences?
-Jose On Tue, May 16, 2017, at 09:50 AM, Iavor Diatchki wrote: > That seems fairly reasonable to me. > > -Iavor > > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Joachim Breitner <mail@joachim- > breitner.de> wrote:>> Hi, >> >> a very small proposal to be considered for Haskell': >> >> Currently, the report states >> >> An abbreviated form of module, consisting only of the module >> body,>> is permitted. If this is used, the header is assumed to be >> ‘module>> Main(main) where’. >> >> I propose to change that to >> >> An abbreviated form of module, consisting only of the module >> body,>> is permitted. If this is used, the header is assumed to be >> ‘module>> Main where’. >> >> The rationale is that a main-less main module is still useful, e.g.>> when >> you are working a lot in GHCi, and offload a few >> extensions to a>> separate file. Currently, tools like hdevtools will >> complain about a>> missing main function when editing such a file. >> >> It would also work better with GHC’s -main-is flag, and avoid >> problems>> like the one described in >> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13704>> >> >> I don’t see any downsides. When compiling to a binary, >> implementations>> are still able to detect that a Main module is not >> imported by any >> other module and only the main function is used, and optimize as if>> only >> main were exported. >> >> Greetings, >> Joachim >> >> >> >> -- >> Joachim “nomeata” Breitner m...@joachim-breitner.de • >> https://www.joachim-breitner.de/ XMPP: nome...@joachim-breitner.de >> • OpenPGP-Key: 0xF0FBF51F Debian Developer: nome...@debian.org>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-prime mailing list >> Haskell-prime@haskell.org >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime >> > _________________________________________________ > Haskell-prime mailing list > Haskell-prime@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
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