Simon Marlow wrote:
The only problem with this is that someone who isn't aware of this convention might accidentally be ignoring compiled code, or might wonder why their compiled code isn't being used. Well, perhaps this is less confusing than the current behaviour; personally I find the current behaviour consistent and easy to understand, but I guess I'm in the minority!
Anecdotes have little value, but for what it's worth: in around 5 years of ghc use, I have never, not even once, wanted to load the module I was working on in its compiled form. I've occasionally noticed that dependent modules get loaded quickly from their .o's and thought that was handy, but that's all. During that time I have many times been annoyed that a .hs file which I load from the command line or via :load (or via C-c C-l in emacs mode) get loaded in interpreted form :) Jules