On 2008.07.13 14:36:03 +0100, Max Bolingbroke
Well, noone has actually said they think fuzzy matching would be useful yet, so I suspect this patch is dead on the vine :). I've filed a ticket with the code anyway (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2442) so at least it's available for others to look at. ,,, Cheers, Max
Don't be discouraged; I think it would be useful. IMO, Haskellers tend to be pretty insensitive when it comes to usability. For example, before the GHC devs were asked for that feature, I wonder whether anyone ever thought: "Hey, when ghc -Wall complains about having no type signature - why doesn't it print out the inferred type signature? That would be helpful and convenient." I don't think it's because there's any sort of gung-ho elitism there, it's just not something anyone but the educators like the Helium folk really think about much. -- gwern virginia spies ISADC in rounds GRU Alex CQB Lander Elvis