4 Dec
2007
4 Dec
'07
10:30 a.m.
Stefan O'Rear wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 05:45:48AM +0100, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:55:51AM +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>>> Prelude> :b Control.Concurrent.MVar >>>> module 'Control.Concurrent.MVar' is not interpreted >>> :b now defaults to :breakpoint, you want :browse >> That's a questionable decision, IMO: >> - it changes behavior >> - I expect :browse to be used more often, so it deserves the sort >> :b version (:bro is not that short) >> >> On the other hand, this change can have an (unintended?) feature >> advertising effect ;-) > > It's not a decision at all. :b is the first command starting with b, > which was browse yesterday, is breakpoint today, and tomorrow will be > something you've never heard of. Well, it wasn't quite that accidental. I noticed that :b had changed, made a unilateral decision that :breakpoint was likely to be typed more often than :browse, and decided to leave it that way. > It's inherently fragile, and shouldn't > be relied on in scripts - and if :b does anything funny, spell out the > command! FWIW, I wish we'd never implemented the "first prefix" match behaviour, unextensible as it is. We could change it for 6.10... Cheers, Simon