Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 release candidate 2

Sven Panne writes:

2016-02-16 10:56 GMT+01:00 Herbert Valerio Riedel :

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[...] but `sig(nature)s` has a precedent, so using `-sigs` wouldn't introduce anything new.

I'm fine with "sigs", my point was only the fact that non-abbreviated words seem to be much more common in the flags names (and are easier to remember). IMHO it doesn't really matter if the flag names are long: One probably doesn't type them on the command line often, they typically live in .cabal files, .travis.yml and pragmas where you type them once.

Well... the -Wnoncanonical-*-instances flag family was the best I could

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come up with which is reasonably self-descriptive... do you have any better suggestions?

No, and I actually like the long names, see above. :-)

I don't have an opinion here. Especially with tab completion these names are rarely typed anyways.

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Fwiw, `ghc --show-options | grep binding` come ups empty

Then the docs are out-of-sync: http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/master/users-guide/using-warnings.html#ghc... Indeed it appears that this warning was supposed to be removed in 7.10.

I've gone ahead and finished this in https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1922 Cheers, - Ben