Deferring type errors until runtime is a feature which probably helps a lot with the adoption of Haskell. Newcomers can get the encouragement of a mostly-working program even if there are type errors in a few places. I can write foo = 1 + 1 bar = head True main = print foo and still run the program or load it in GHCi. Does anyone think it would also be beneficial to have "-fdefer-name-errors"? If I write foo = 1 + 1 bar = baz main = print foo but baz doesn't exist it would still be nice to let the program run or be loaded in GHCi. This could be achieved by replacing all missing variables by "error 'baz was not defined'" or similar. If a suitable parser could be written it might even be possible to defer syntax errors! This kind of thing would make the experience with Haskell gentler for newcomers, but also more pleasant for veterans! Tom