31 May
2002
31 May
'02
9:13 a.m.
Jon Fairbairn <Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:
Why "-f" anyway? It took me ages to work out what "-fallow-overlapping-instances" meant -- I wondered how "fallow" could apply to overlapping instances.
I suppose it's a GCCism, where options starting with -f specifiy *f*lags. (Which doesn't seem to apply to GHC, unless there's a -fno-allow... (of -fdont-allow...?)) -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants