Re: RFC: changes to -i flag for finding source files

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Daniel Trstenjak wrote:

Well, it might not be terribly surprising in itself, but we just have quite complex systems and the not terribly surprising things just accumulate and then it might get surprising somewhere.

I really prefer simplicity and explicitly.

If a central tool like GHC adds this behaviour, then all other tools are forced to follow.

Well, I just proposed it as an alternative to some of the other ideas floated here. A command line flag like -i would definitely be ghc specific and inherently non-portable. John -- John Meacham - http://notanumber.net/