Sven Panne
Malcolm Wallace wrote:
[...] Think of them as being like ghc's .hi-boot files. [...]
Well, this concept would be OK if we reached a fixed point after nhc98 itself has been built, but doing mysterious things by hand is, well, a kind of sub-optimal... :-(
Unfortunately, a true fixpoint is probably impossible. When a module is permitted to redefine entities from the stdlibs, as indeed the stdlibs must allow when bootstrapping, nhc98 appears to re-order the entities recorded in the .hi file. So, it would be possible to end up simply juggling the order endlessly. Given that these files must reside in CVS, I don't fancy the confusion that might result from continual auto-regeneration of versions that differ only in a surface way. But I take the general point that this makes life somewhat tricky for the novice nhc98-developer... And perhaps using a separate file nomenclature like .hi-boot would be a good solution. Regards, Malcolm