12 Oct
2005
12 Oct
'05
12:27 a.m.
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 04:52:13PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
There's no really deep reason for this choice, other than it being what GHC does normally - i.e. the default binary has always been a.out (main.exe on Windows) unless -o is given.
I don't see enough of a compelling reason to change it, sorry. It's not broken, just slightly inconvenient.
as a random data point, jhc spits out 'hs.out' as its default output name. not for any particular reason. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈