hi, koen wrote: > ... > Another such restriction is the fact that any module which > is called Main *must* have a function which is called main > in it. > ... technically a module called Main need not define a function called main. all that is required is that there is a function called main in scope. if there isn't one ghci gives a warning these days, wihch seems quite reasonable.
martin wrote: > ... > You'd need to specify which module should be the top-level module when > compiling, of course. > ... by the way, you can get what you want in GHC i think by the follwoing trick (it is a trick however): #ifndef MAIN_IS_A module A #endif main = print "A" now you can compile it as follows, to get an executable: ghc -cpp -D=MAIN_IS_A A.hs if you want to use it as a library, just omit the -D part. also if you will be doing this a lot it may be a good idea to use the -odir -hidir flgas of GHC. bye iavor -- ================================================== | Iavor S. Diatchki, Ph.D. student | | Department of Computer Science and Engineering | | School of OGI at OHSU | | http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~diatchki | ================================================== _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
