On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:53:24AM +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Having :main would break the Hugs rule that all commands can be abbreviated to a single letter. :Main?
main is basically calling main, and in Haskell Main would be something entirely different. However, the single letter rule is useful. Not sure on that one.
I still have this floating around - I personally find the :main command indispensable now, and curse when I get to a computer without it (or have to use GHCi, again loosing :main). I will probably post it as a recommendation to the GHC team as soon as its in hugs.
Any final thoughts on whether it should go in or not, and what its name should be?
Might as put :main in, as long as :m still abbreviates :module. Don't forget to update the User's Guide too.