Hi,
a very small proposal to be considered for Haskell':
Currently, the report states
An abbreviated form of module, consisting only of the module body,
is permitted. If this is used, the header is assumed to be ‘module
Main(main) where’.
I propose to change that to
An abbreviated form of module, consisting only of the module body,
is permitted. If this is used, the header is assumed to be ‘module
Main where’.
The rationale is that a main-less main module is still useful, e.g.
when you are working a lot in GHCi, and offload a few extensions to a
separate file. Currently, tools like hdevtools will complain about a
missing main function when editing such a file.
It would also work better with GHC’s -main-is flag, and avoid problems
I don’t see any downsides. When compiling to a binary, implementations
are still able to detect that a Main module is not imported by any
other module and only the main function is used, and optimize as if
only main were exported.
Greetings,
Joachim
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