Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 release candidate 2

Sven Panne writes:

2016-02-15 20:16 GMT+01:00 Ben Gamari :

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Sven Panne writes: The reason for this is that the things missing signatures are pattern synonyms, which have their warnings controlled by -Wmissing-pat-syn-sigs [1], which is enabled in -Wall by default.

OK, I missed that in the release notes. Two points here:

* The naming of the options is horrible, sometimes it's "sigs", sometimes it's "signatures". I would prefer if we named them consistently (probably "signatures", it's easier to search for).

Indeed, I noticed that this when looking this up for you. The inconsistency is quite unfortunate. Perhaps -Wmissing-pattern-signatures or -Wmissing-patsyn-signatures? -Wmissing-pattern-synonym-signatures is a bit of a mouthful.

* Given the myriad of warning-related options, It is *extremely* hard to figure out which one caused the actual warning in question. The solution to this is very easy and done this way in clang/gcc (don't remember which one, I'm switching quite often): Just suffix all warnings consistently with the option causing it, e.g.

Indeed, this is #10752, as hvr pointed out. I'm not sure whether David has done anything on this yet; feel free to take a stab at implementing it if you have some free time. - Ben