It also worked in 6.2 Before that I don't remember. It is a very sensible thing to do simply because the mere ghci prompt suggests that we are in the scope of the top-level module. So one would really expect that ghci honors the directives of the top-level module. Ralf
-----Original Message----- From: Keean Schupke [mailto:k.schupke@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:20 AM To: Simon Peyton-Jones Cc: Ralf Lammel; glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org Subject: Re: GHC 6.4 release candidates available
In the past having:
{-# OPTIONS -fallow-overlapping-instances #-}
in a module was enough to get ghci to allow the overlaps.
so we do:
ghci Test.hs
now it does not work (but it did in 6.3), but:
ghci -fallow-overlapping-instances Test.hs
does... Even it Test.hs is the top level module.
Keean.
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
Ralf
You have a pragma "-fallow-overlapping-instances" in Test.hs, and indeed it is honoured when compiling Test.hs. But it's not taken into account when compiling top-level expressions, or, indeed, if you were to import Test into another module.
If you say ":set -falllow-overlapping-instances" it'll work fine.
Now, maybe you'd like the flag to attach permanently to the *instance*, so that if an instance decl is compiled with -fallow-overlapping-instances, then no complaint will ever be issued for its overlaps, even if it is imported into a module that doesn't have -fallow-overlapping-instances. That would make sense, I think, but it's not implemented and never has been.
Simon
| -----Original Message----- | From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users- | bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Ralf Lammel | Sent: 02 March 2005 08:45 | To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: RE: GHC 6.4 release candidates available | | I think this is an old bug, | or at least I have seen it months back. | | The "overlapping instances" directive does not make it to the top-level. | See attached sample with the offending session. | | Thanks for fixing. | Ralf
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