#9642: LANGUAGE pragma synonyms -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: dreixel | Owner: Type: feature | Status: new request | Milestone: Priority: normal | Version: 7.9 Component: Compiler | Keywords: Resolution: | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Operating System: | Difficulty: Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Blocked By: Type of failure: | Related Tickets: None/Unknown | Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by nomeata): I like it. I worry that the implementation is non-trivial: After all, you’d want the parser to know about the pragmas, and you need the parsed module before knowing the import list. How about putting these aliases into the package database? This is loaded before an individual module is loaded and avoids module dependencies? I.e. a new stanza: {{{ language PedrosHaskell extensions: BangPatterns EmptyDataDecls FlexibleContexts FlexibleInstances }}} in some dependencies’ `.cabal` file? (This opens the way to other `cabal` flags to be used here, e.g. compiler flags to load a specific plugin, which might be very useful, but let’s not go there with this proposal yet.) -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9642#comment:7 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler