Re: [Haskell-cafe] Weird interaction between literate haskell, ghci and OverloadedStrings

Joachim Breitner wrote:

it does not seem to be related to literate haskell, if I copy the code from your file into a .hs without the "> ", ghci still does not activate the OverloadedStrings extension when loading the file.

I hadn't noticed that.

I’d consider this a bug until the developers explain why this should or cannot be different, and suggest you file it as such.

I agree. I've lodged a bug report here: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5673 Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/