Re: SCC "ab cd"

Serge D. Mechveliani wrote:

Dear GHC developers,

ghc-6.8.2 compiles {-# SCC "ab cd" #-} as all right.

And the GHC candidate of May 27, 2008 reports the error:

"spaces are not allowed in SCC".

Do you think that this latter has more sense? Is not this a matter of the programmer to give string names to SCC points?

see http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2071 . Agree or disagree. "it probably never worked" -- Did you ever get any useful profiling information when you had spaces in your SCC? Or did it just not work anyway (in which case a sooner error message is probably better) -Isaac