On Nov 14, 2007, at 3:28 , Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
I agree that an informative error message is worth 100 manual pages. The trouble is that at this stage GHCi doesn't even *know* that 'x' ever existed, because it's not mentioned in the interface file, so it's hard to do even give the error message you suggest.
Not really. Include the hint on the first "symbol not found" error after loading a binary module as a "Perhaps you need to -fforce- recomp?"; it doesn't really matter if it turns out the symbol-not- found was actually e.g. a typo. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH